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George the Confessor
Bishop of Antioch in Pisidia
SaintResearchedByzantine EmpirePre-congregation
Feast: 19 April (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
701
Died
814
Beatified
—
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
At Antioch in Pisidia, in present-day Turkey, Saint George, bishop, who died in exile for the veneration of sacred images.
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 19 April as a bishop of Antioch in Pisidia who died in exile for defending the veneration of sacred images.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 19 April (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q29511823 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — George the Confessor (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.