SAINT
saint-pope-demetrius-of-alexandria
A saint of the Catholic Church
biography
Demetrius I, 12th Bishop and Patriarch of Alexandria. Sextus Julius Africanus, who visited Alexandria in the Bishoprice of Demetrius, places his accession as eleventh bishop from Mark in the tenth year of Roman Emperor Commodus; Eusebius of Caesarea places it in the tenth year of Septimius Severus.
feast Day
10-09
birth Date
c. 127 AD
death Date
9 October c. 224-232
canonization Status
canonized
feast Month
10
feast Day Of Month
9