Saints

• Theophanes of Mount Diabenos

  Theophanes the Confessor and Faster (†c. 300) was an ascetic of the generation before the great persecutions ended, born of pagan parents, w...

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  Theophanes the Branded

  Theophanes the Branded (Graptos, c. 778–845) was a Palestinian monk of the Lavra of St. Sabbas, hymnographer, and confessor of the holy icon...

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  Theophanes the Confessor

  Theophanes the Confessor (c. 759/760 – 817/818) was a wealthy Byzantine noble of Constantinople who renounced rank and riches to become a mo...

• Theophanes the Merciful

  Theophanes the Merciful was a householder of Gaza in Syria Palaestina, remembered for a single, complete virtue: he gave away everything. He...

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  Theophanes the New of Naousa

  Theophanes, called the New to distinguish him from the older saints of his name and the Wonderworker for what was done through him, was a si...

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  Theophano the Empress

  Theophano (c. 866 – c. 893/897) was the first wife of the Byzantine emperor Leo VI the Wise and one of the most beloved of the imperial sain...

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  Theophilus the Confessor

  Theophilus the Confessor (†716, as the calendars transmit the date) was a monastic of Mount Selention who suffered for the holy icons at the...

• Theophilus the Myrrh-gusher

  Theophilus (†1548) was a learned Macedonian who served the Ecumenical Patriarchate, refused a metropolitan see, and ended his life as a herm...

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  Theophilus the New

  Theophilus the New (†c. 784) was a Byzantine military commander and senator, honoured by the emperor and set at the head of the imperial for...

• Theophylact of Nicomedia

  Theophylact (mid-8th century – c. 842/845) was bishop of Nicomedia in Bithynia and one of the leading confessors of the second Iconoclasm. A...

• Theosebia the Deaconess

  Theosebia (fourth century – c. 385) was a deaconess of the church of Nyssa in Cappadocia, closely bound to the household of the great Cappad...

• Theosteriktos the Confessor

  Theosteriktos the Confessor (8th century) was a monk — by the tradition the abbot — of the famous Pelekete monastery on the Bithynian shore...

• Theotecnus of Antioch

  Theotecnus of Antioch (†c. 305–311) was a soldier-martyr of the last great persecution: a renowned military commander at Antioch who refused...

• Theotima

  Theotima is one of the saints of whom the Church has kept only the name, the manner of death and the day. The Greek synaxarion for May 19 re...

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  Therapon of Cyprus

  Therapon of Cyprus is the bishop-martyr of Kition (Larnaca) who was cut down upon the holy table while celebrating the Liturgy by raiders fr...

• Therapon of Monza

  Therapon of Monza (died 1597) was a Russian monk of the Kostroma region, an ascetic of great hiddenness who laboured at the small monastery...

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  Therapon of Sardis

  Therapon, bishop of Sardis in Lydia, was a hieromartyr of the third century who converted and baptised great numbers of the pagan Greeks of...

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  Therapon of White Lake

  Therapon of White Lake (1337–1426) was a Russian nobleman of Volokolamsk who took the monastic habit at forty in the Simonov monastery at Mo...

• Thespesius of Cappadocia

  Thespesius — a Greek name meaning "divinely-uttered," and so apt to a martyr that the synaxaria remark on it — was a Christian of Cappadocia...

• Thirty-eight Martyrs of Thrace

  A company of thirty-eight martyrs who suffered in Thrace and were beheaded. The Greek synaxarion of August 23 keeps their memory in a single...

• Thirty-three Martyrs of Heraclea

  A company of thirty-three martyrs from Heraclea whom the Greek synaxaria enter under August 28 with the bare statement that they were perfec...

• Thirty-three Martyrs of Palestine

  A company of thirty-three martyrs of Palestine, of whom the calendar of the Church has kept the number, the province and the manner of their...

• Thomais of Alexandria

  Thomais was a young married woman of Alexandria in the fifth century who was killed by her own father-in-law when she refused his incestuous...

• Thomas of Bithynia

  Thomas Dephourkinos was a monk of Bithynia in the ninth and tenth centuries, who from his youth loved the monastic life and rose to govern a...

• Thomas of Constantinople

  Thomas (†610) was Patriarch of Constantinople from 607 until his death, holding the see through the troubled last years of the emperor Phoca...

• Thomas of Mount Maleon

  Thomas of Mount Maleon was a Byzantine officer — a commander of troops, strong, brave, and much honoured for his victories — who at the heig...

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  Thomas the Apostle

  Thomas the Apostle, called Didymus, "the Twin," is the apostle of the great doubt and the greater confession: absent when the risen Lord fir...

• Thomas the Fool-for-Christ of Syria

  Thomas was a monk of Coele-Syria who used to come down to Antioch to collect his monastery's annual allowance from the revenues of the great...

• Three Martyrs of Galatia

  Three martyrs who suffered in Galatia, the inland province of Asia Minor evangelised by the Apostle Paul, are commemorated in the Greek syna...

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  Thyrsus, Leucius and Callinicus

  Thyrsus, Leucius and Callinicus were martyrs of the persecution under the emperor Decius (249–251), suffering about the year 250 in Bithynia...

• Tigrius and Eutropius

  Tigrius, a presbyter, and Eutropius, a reader, of the church of Constantinople, were clergy of John Chrysostom who stood by their archbishop...

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  Tikhon of Amathus

  Tychon — Tikhon in the Slavonic and Russian books — was bishop of Amathus on the south coast of Cyprus in the last years of the fourth centu...

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  Tikhon of Kaluga

  Tikhon of Medyn and Kaluga (†1492) was a monk of the Chudov monastery in Moscow who left it for the forests of the upper Oka and lived as a...

• Tikhon of Krestogorsk

  Tikhon of Krestogorsk — also called Tikhon of Vokhma — was a monastic of the far north-east of the Vologda country in the second half of the...

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  Tikhon of Lukhov

  Tikhon of Lukhov (†16 June 1503), called Timothy in the world, was a nobleman in military service in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania who in 148...

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  Tikhon of Moscow

  Tikhon (Vasily Ivanovich Bellavin, 1865–1925) was the first Patriarch of Moscow after the two-hundred-year synodal captivity of the Russian...

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  Tikhon of Zadonsk

  Tikhon of Zadonsk (1724–1783) is the great hierarch and spiritual writer of eighteenth-century Russia, and the one figure of that Westernisi...

• Tilbert of Hexham

  Tilbert (Tilberht; †789) was the eighth bishop of Hexham in Northumbria, consecrated in the autumn of 780 or 781 in succession to Alcmund an...

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  Timon the Deacon

  Timon was one of the seven deacons ordained by the Apostles at Jerusalem in the first days of the Church (Acts 6:1–6) and is numbered among...

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  Timothy and Maura

  Timothy and Maura were a young married couple of Penapeis in the Thebaid of Upper Egypt who were put to death about the year 286, in the per...

• Timothy of Proconnesus

  Timothy was bishop of Proconnesus, the marble island in the Sea of Marmara now called Marmara Adası, in the sixth century. The synaxarion re...

• Timothy of Prusa

  Timothy was bishop of Prusa in Bithynia (the modern Bursa) in the middle of the fourth century, honoured by the synaxaria as a wonderworker...

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  Timothy of Symbola

  Timothy (died c. 795) was a monk and ascetic of the monastery called Symbola on Mount Olympus in Bithynia — the "holy mountain" of Asia Mino...

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  Timothy the Apostle

  Timothy (c. 17 – c. 97) was the beloved disciple and inseparable companion of the Apostle Paul (who has no separate entry in this collection...

• Timothy, Agapius and Thecla

  Timothy, Agapius and Thecla are three of the earliest named victims of the Great Persecution in Palestine, put to death in 304, its second y...

• Tithoes of the Thebaid

  Tithoes is one of the anchorites of fourth-century Egypt whose memory survives almost entirely in the Sayings of the Desert Fathers, where h...

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  Titus the Apostle

  Titus is the Greek — the uncircumcised Gentile whom Paul took up to Jerusalem as a living argument, the disciple he trusted with the hardest...

• Titus the Presbyter of the Kiev Caves

  Titus (†1190) was a priest-monk of the Near (Antoniev) Caves of the Kiev Caves Lavra, remembered in the Caves Paterikon for a story of enmit...

• Titus the Soldier of the Kiev Caves

  Titus the Soldier (14th century) was a warrior who, grievously wounded in battle, turned from the world to the monastic life and became a mo...

• Titus the Wonderworker

  Titus was a monk from his youth who, raised to be abbot of his monastery, was granted by God the gift of wonderworking, and who stood firm f...