Apostle Asyncritus

The holy, glorious, all-laudable Apostle Asyncritus (also Asynkritos) was numbered among the Seventy Apostles. He was bishop of Hyracania in Asia. The Apostle Paul mentions him in his letter to the Romans (cf. 16:14). The Church remembers St. Asyncritus on April 8.

Hymns

Troparion (Tone 1) [1]

Let us praise in hymns the six–fold choir of Apostles:

Herodion and Agabus,

Rufus, Asyncritus, Phlegon and holy Hermes.

They ever entreat the Trinity for our souls!

Kontakion (Tone 2)

You became the disciples of Christ

And all-holy Apostles,

O glorious Herodion, Agabus and Rufus,

Asyncritus, Phlegon and Hermes.

Ever entreat the Lord

To grant forgiveness of transgressions

To us who sing your praises.

Kontakion (Tone 4)

Like stars, O holy Apostles,

You illumine the way of the faithful with the light of the Holy Spirit.

You dispel the darkness of error as you gaze on God the Word!

Source

• St. Nikolai Velimirovic, The Prologue of Ohrid

External links

• Apostle Asyncritus of the Seventy, January 4 (OCA)
• Apostle Asyncritus, of the Seventy and those with him, April 8 (OCA)
• Agavos, Rouphos, Asynkritos, Phlegon, Herodion, & Hermes of the 70 Apostles (GOARCH)