A Saint Remembered Only by Name
The Orthodox calendar preserves a number of martyrs whose memory the Church has kept faithfully even though the details of their lives have not survived. Niketas is one such saint: the synaxarion remembers him on April 16 as a hieromartyr — the rank given to a member of the clergy, typically a priest or bishop, who was put to death for the faith — but transmits no narrative of his birth, ministry, or martyrdom.
Some calendars, including OrthodoxWiki, associate the April 16 Niketas with the Skete of St. Anne on Mount Athos, suggesting an Athonite monastic context for his life and death. The saint's own entry, however, leaves his region and era unspecified, so this identification is best treated as a tradition carried by certain sources rather than a documented fact. Where the record is silent, the Church's commemoration of his name stands in place of a written life.