~303 or 311-12 AD Nicomedia (modern-day İzmit, Turkey)
Venerated in
Roman Catholic Church; Eastern Orthodox Church
Canonized
Pre-Congregation
Feast
27 April; Orthodox Church: 3 September
Anthimus of Nicomedia (Greek: Ἄνθιμος Νικομηδείας; martyred 303 or 311–12), was the bishop of Nicomedia in Bithynia, where he was beheaded during a persecution of Christians, traditionally placed under Diocletian (following Eusebius), in which "rivers of blood" flowed.[1]
^Schaff and Wace, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. I: Book VIII, chapter VI
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AnthimusofNicomedia (Greek: Ἄνθιμος Νικομηδείας; martyred 303 or 311–12), was the bishop ofNicomedia in Bithynia, where he was beheaded during a persecution...
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metropolitan see, but without suffragans. There is a list of its bishops in Le Quien, completed by Anthimus Alexoudes, revised for the early period by Pargoire...
bishop Anthimus, were decapitated. A second fire occurred sixteen days after the first. Galerius left the city for Rome, declaring Nicomedia unsafe....
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bishop Anthimus, were decapitated. The persecution intensified; presbyters and other clergymen could be arrested without having even been accused of a crime...
the first see of St. Gregory of Nazianzus who was appointed to it by his friend St. Basil as an aspect of Basil's conflict with Anthimus. Gregory was there...
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