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Venerable (Monastic) · 9th century

Venerable John of Cathares the Confessor

Also known as John of Kathara · John Abbot of Cathares

Abbot of the Kathara monastery in Bithynia and an iconodule confessor, a co-worker of St. Theodore the Studite who was repeatedly exiled under the iconoclast emperors. He reposed about 832.

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Notes

Reposed c. 832.

Sources: Orthodox.net menaion; GOARCH calendar