Pachomius of Alexandria
bishop and martyr at Alexandria
Feast: 25 November (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
With him are commemorated three Egyptian bishops, Hesychius, Pachomius and Theodore, who, also at Alexandria, suffered together with many others in the same persecution and rose to heaven cruelly pierced through with the sword.
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 25 November as an Egyptian bishop who suffered at Alexandria with many others in the same persecution and was cruelly pierced through with the sword.
- Roman Martyrology, 25 November (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata R624963c2 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.