Christian feast days: Phocas, Bishop of Sinope

Phocas, Bishop of Sinope

Hieromartyr Phocas was born in the city of Sinope in northern Turkey. His life and legend may have been a fusion of three men with the same name: a Phocas of Antioch, Phocas, Bishop of Sinope, and Phocas the Gardener. Only the last seems authentic.