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Phocas, Bishop of Sinope

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His parents, Pamphilus and Maria, were pious Christians. During his adult years he became Bishop of Sinope. At the time of persecution against Christians under the emperor
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in northern Turkey. His life and legend may have been a fusion of three men with the same name: a Phocas of Antioch, Phocas, Bishop of Sinope, and
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The Hieromartyr Phocas is especially venerated as a defender against fires, and also as a helper of the drowning.
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to Constantinople about the year 404 A.D. is celebrated on July 23. His primary feast is on
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Domar: the calendrical and liturgical cycle of the Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church
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Saint Phocas

book
paddle
Martyr
Sinope
Bithynia and Pontus
Sinop
Turkey
Roman Catholic Church
Eastern Orthodox Church
Armenian Apostolic Church
Feast
22 September
Exaltation of the Cross
Patronage
Hieromartyr
Greek
Sinope
Phocas the Gardener
Trajan
Saint John Chrysostom
translation
relics
Constantinople
translation of his holy relics
Pontus
September 22
wonderworker

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