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John of Gothia (? – c. 791) was a Crimean Gothic Greek Orthodox Metropolitan bishop of Doros and rebel leader who overthrew and expelled the Turco-Jewish Khazars from Gothia 787. He was posthumously canonized an Eastern Orthodox Saint.John of Gothia was born to a Crimean Gothic family the son of Leon and Fotina in Partenit Crimea where he grew up to become a bishop. John went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and stayed there for three years.
