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Paul I of Constantinople

Bishop of Constantinople

SaintFull write-upPre-congregation

Feast: 6 November (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born

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unknown

Died

350

Beatified

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not needed: before formal processes

Canonised

By tradition

recognised before formal processes began

Who they were

Commemoration of Saint Paul, bishop of Constantinople: repeatedly driven out by the Arians for his Nicene faith and several times restored to his office, he was finally banished by the Emperor Constantius to Göksun, a small town in Cappadocia, where he is said to have been cruelly strangled in an ambush laid for him by those same Arians.

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 6 November as a bishop of Constantinople repeatedly driven out by the Arians for his Nicene faith and exiled to Göksun.

Sources

Roman Martyrology, 6 November (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
Wikidata Q1266354 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
English Wikipedia — Paul I of Constantinople (CC BY-SA)

Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.