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Nicetas of Apollonias
bishop of Pojani, exiled for the holy images
SaintFull write-upDate unknown
Feast: 20 March (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
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unknown
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not on record
Who they were
Commemoration of Saint Nicetas, bishop of Pojani in Macedonia, who was sent into exile by the emperor Leo the Armenian because of the veneration of the holy images.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 20 March as a bishop of Pojani in Macedonia exiled by Leo the Armenian for the veneration of the holy images.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 20 March (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q133188325 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.