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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


from its origins to circa AD 700, across the entire Christian world


Name

Arkadios and Nestor, bishops and martyrs of Cyprus

Saint ID

S01378

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Bishops , Groups and pairs of saints
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E03047The early seventh-century Georgian version of the Lectionary of Jerusalem commemorates on 7 March *Arkadios and Nestor (bishops and martyrs of Cyprus, S01378).
E03671The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th century, based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Jerusalem, commemorates on 7 March *Arkadios and Nestor (bishops and martyrs of Cyprus, S01378), *Pionios (presbyter and martyr in Smyrna, S00031), and, as a later addition, Bishop Theophylaktos of Antioch, confessor under the iconoclast emperor Leo V the Armenian (813-820).
E03672The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th century, based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Jerusalem, commemorates on 8 March *Pionios (presbyter and martyr of Smyrna, S00031), Paulos, bishop and confessor during Iconoclasm, *Arkadios and Nestor (bishops and martyrs of Cyprus, S01378).