Theodore of Sykeon
Byzantine saint
Feast: 22 April (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
In the village of Sykeon in Galatia, in present-day Turkey, Saint Theodore, bishop and hegumen, who, drawn to solitude from childhood, chose an austere way of life and, ordained bishop of Anastasiopolis against his will, insistently asked the patriarch of Constantinople to be allowed to return to his hermitage.
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 22 April as a hermit and abbot who, made bishop of Anastasiopolis against his will, asked to return to his hermitage.
- Roman Martyrology, 22 April (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q3526533 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Theodore of Sykeon (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.