St Michael of Synnada, also known as Michael the Confessor, was the Bishop of Synnada, Phrygia in modern-day Turkey. He was born in the 8th century AD and died in 826 AD in Eudokiadu, Turkey. We celebrate his feast day on May 23 every year in the Catholic Church.
St Michael of Synnada Biography |
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| Date of Birth | 8th century AD |
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| Country of Birth | Turkey in Europe |
| Matrimony/Holy Orders | Saints who were Bishops |
| Profession | Monk, Bishop |
| Place of Work | Turkey |
| Date of Death | 826 AD |
| Place of Death | Eudokiadu, Turkey |
| Feast Day | May 23 |
| Canonization | Pre-Congregation |
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Saint’s Biography
Saint Michael was the bishop of Synnada, Phrygia in Turkey in 787. He was a man of peace who favored the correspondence between the Greeks and the Latins.
Michael went to Constantinople and made friends with Teofilatto. Both men adopted the religious life in the monastery, founded by the future Patriarch Nicephorus I on the Asian shore of the Bosphorus.
Banished in 814 and imprisoned in 815 by emperor Leo V for defending the use of icons. He died in 826 in Turkey of natural causes.
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