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Saint Niketas the Confessor of Paphlagonia

Also known as Niketas the Patrician

An imperial court patrician of Paphlagonia who represented Empress Irene at the Seventh Ecumenical Council and later confessed the veneration of the icons.

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Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints