Venerable Nicetas the Confessor (†c. 838) — October 13 / October 26 (Julian Calendar)

On this day, October 13 according to the Julian Calendar (October 26 civil calendar), the Georgian Orthodox Church commemorates Venerable Nicetas the Confessor.

Venerable Nicetas the Confessor was born in Paphlagonia in Asia Minor. At first he held a distinguished position at the Byzantine imperial court, but later he became a monk and laboured in one of the monasteries of Constantinople. When the iconoclast Theophilus (829–842) ascended the throne, Venerable Nicetas was driven out of his monastery for denouncing the heresy. The chosen one of the Lord reposed around the year 838, at the age of seventy-five.