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Diogenes of Antioch
martyr at Antioch in Syria
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Feast: 8 April (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
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unknown
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not on record
Who they were
Commemoration of Saints Herodion, Asyncritus and Phlegon, whom Saint Paul the Apostle greets in the Letter to the Romans.
At Antioch in Syria, today in Turkey, Saints Timothy, Diogenes, Macarius and Maximus, martyrs.
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 Roman Martyrology remembers him on 8 April as a martyr at Antioch in Syria with Timothy, Macarius and Maximus.
Connected on this site
- Paul the Apostle Saint“Commemoration of Saints Herodion, Asyncritus and Phlegon, whom Saint Paul the Apostle greets in the Letter to the Romans.” — this site's research
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 8 April (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Rd87e1fa8 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.