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Hierarch · 8th century

Saint Stephen the Confessor Archbishop of Sourozh

Also known as Stephen of Sourozh

A Cappadocian monk who became Archbishop of Sourozh in Crimea, suffered under iconoclast persecution, and defended the veneration of the icons.

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