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Icon of Saint Photios the Great, Patriarch of Constantinople, holding the Gospel.

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Saint Photios the Great AD 893

Patriarch of Constantinople

Commemorated
February 6
Lived
AD 893

Patriarch of Constantinople, the most learned man of his age, who defended the Church against the novel addition of the Filioque to the Creed and oversaw the conversion of the Slavs.

Holy Photios the Great, pray to God for us.