He is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church, his cult being concentrated on the island of Sicily, where the veneration of saints from the eastern Mediterranean was particularly encouraged during the period of Byzantine rule.
He is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church and in the Eastern Orthodox Church as a Hieromartyr. In the Catholic Church his cult being concentrated on the island of Sicily, where the veneration of saints from the eastern Mediterranean was particularly encouraged during the period of Byzantine rule.