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The Church remembers St. Caesar on March 30 with Apostles Sosthenes, Apollos, Cephas, and Epaphroditus and on December 8 with the same apostles and Onesiphorus. He was the first bishop of Dyrrhachium (modern day Durrës, Albania). His position as bishop was succeeded by Saint Astius, an Albanian martyr who has a church dedicated to him in Durres.
In Western Christianity, they are usually referred to as disciples, [2] whereas in Eastern Christianity they are usually referred to as apostles. [3] Using the original Greek words , both titles are descriptive, as an apostle is one sent on a mission (the Greek uses the verb form: apesteilen ) whereas a disciple is a student, but the two ...
Quadratus was part of the second generation of Jesus' followers. According to the early church historian Eusebius of Caesarea, Quadratus was a disciple of the Apostles (auditor apostolorum), as noted in Chronicon. In his early years, he traveled as an itinerant preacher, spreading the Gospel and journeying through regions such as Asia Minor. It ...
Andrew the Apostle was born to a Jewish family in Bethsaida, in Galilee, [9] possibly between 5 and 10 AD [10] The New Testament states that Andrew was the brother of Simon Peter, [11] and likewise a son of Jonah. "The first striking characteristic of Andrew is his name: it is not Hebrew, as might have been expected, but Greek, indicative of a ...
Timothy became St Paul's disciple, and later his constant companion and co-worker in preaching. [18] In the year 52, Paul and Silas took Timothy along with them on their journey to Macedonia . Augustine extols his zeal and disinterestedness in immediately forsaking his country, his house, and his parents, to follow the apostle, to share in his ...
Pope Benedict XVI, The Apostles. Full title is The Origins of the Church – The Apostles and Their Co-Workers. published 2007, in the US: ISBN 978-1-59276-405-1; different edition published in the UK under the title: Christ and His Church – Seeing the face of Jesus in the Church of the Apostles, ISBN 978-1-86082-441-8. Carson, D.A.
Apelles of Heraklion (Ancient Greek: Ἀπελλῆς) is numbered among the Seventy Disciples.Along with the Apostles Urban of Macedonia, Stachys, Ampliatus, Narcissus of Athens and Aristobulus of Britannia (all of these names are mentioned together by St. Paul in Romans 16:8–11, [1] which cannot be casual) he assisted Saint Andrew.
Ananias of Damascus (/ ˌ æ n ə ˈ n aɪ ə s / AN-ə-NY-əs; Ancient Greek: Ἀνανίας, romanized: Ananíās; Aramaic: ܚܢܢܝܐ, romanized: Ḥananyō; "favoured of the L ORD") was a disciple of Jesus in Damascus, mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles in the Bible, which describes how he was sent by Jesus to restore the sight of Saul of Tarsus (who later was called Paul the Apostle ...