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[[Hippolytus of Rome]] (+235) had produced an early list of the Seventy Apostles,<ref>HIPPOLYTUS OF ROME, APPENDIX TO HIS WORKS. ''"THE SAME HIPPOLYTUS ON THE SEVENTY APOSTLES".'' '''Early Church Fathers. 38 Vols.'''</ref><ref>[[Hippolytus of Rome]]. ''[http://www.pravoslavieto.com/docs/sv_otci/sv_Ipolit_Rimski/apostles_12_70.htm The Same Hippolytus on The Seventy Apostles].''</ref> however it was regarded as dubious, and was put in the Appendix of his works in the voluminous collection of Early Church Fathers.<ref group="note">Unfortunately because he was the first antipope, and that he wrote in Greek rather than in Latin, his works were shunned, neglected and lost to the West, until their discovery at a monastery on Mt. Athos in 1854.</ref>
[[w:Dorotheus of Tyre|Dorotheus of Tyre]] (+362) traditionally is traditionally the one credited with recounting the names of the Seventy Apostles.<ref>[[w:Dorotheus of Tyre|Dorotheus of Tyre]]. ''[http://www.orthodox.net/saints/70apostles.html THE CHOOSING OF THE SEVENTY HOLY APOSTLES].''</ref> These names were also given in the ''[[w:Chronicon Paschale|Chronicon Paschale]],'' a 7th-century Byzantine universal chronicle of the world. However there were errors in the list of the Seventy Apostles attributed to Saint Dorotheus, including the repetition of four names, the omission of other names, and the inclusion of some men who were Apostles at first, but later fell from the faith and the dignity of their office.
It was St. [[w:Dimitri of Rostov|Demetrius of Rostov]] (+1709) who consulted the [[Holy Scripture]], the traditions passed down by the [[Church Fathers|Fathers]], and the accounts of trustworthy historians in attempting to correct the mistakes and uncertainties in the list when compiling his collection of ''Lives of the Saints''. A widely accepted canon in the Orthodox Church is thus given in ''"The Great Collection of the Lives of the Saints, Volume 5: January",'' compiled by St. [[Dimitri of Rostov|Demetrius of Rostov]]:<ref>[[Dimitri of Rostov]]. ''[http://web.archive.org/web/20050907021458/http://www.chrysostompress.org/collection/0104_Synaxis_70_Apostles/ The Synaxis of the Holy Seventy Apostles].'' From The Great Collection of the Lives of the Saints, Volume 5: January. Chrysostom Press.</ref>
