Asyncritus of Hyrcania

Saint Asyncritus of Hyrcania
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Apostle of the Seventy Bishop of Hyrcania and Hieromartyr
Died	50–100 (circa)
Honored in	Eastern Orthodox Church
Feast	8 April 4 January

Asyncritus of Hyrcania, also Asynkritos (Greek: Ἀσύγκριτος, meaning "incomparable"), was numbered among the Seventy Disciples. He was bishop of Hyrcania in Asia. Saint Paul mentions him in his letter to the Romans (cf. 16:14). The Eastern Orthodox Church remembers St. Asyncritus on 8 April. He is also commemorated on 4 January with the other Seventy Apostles.

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!

Sources

• St. Nikolai Velimirovic, The Prologue from Ohrid

References

• This article is derived in whole or in part from Asyncritus of Hyrcania at OrthodoxWiki, which is dually licensed under CC-By-SA and GFDL. All relevant terms must be followed.

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)
• http://www.zeno.org/Heiligenlexikon-1858/A/Asyncritus,+S.+(1)
• http://www.biblia.deon.pl/rozdzial.php?id=285&werset=14#W14