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Timotheus
bishop of Prusia
SaintFull write-upPre-congregation
Feast: 10 June (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
361
Beatified
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not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
At Prusiada in Bithynia, St. Timothy, bishop and martyr. Under Julian the Apostate, and by his orders, Timothy was beheaded because he refused to deny Christ.
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 Dominican Martyrology (1955) remembers him on 10 June.
Sources
- The Martyrology of the Order of Friars Preachers (tr. W. R. Bonniwell OP, 1955), 10 June
- Wikidata Q96313696 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.