Holy Apostle and Evangelist Mark
Polyeleos. Kept with the Polyeleos at Matins.
Commemorated today
- Holy Apostle and Evangelist Mark (68?)Apostle life on this site
The life we have written
Holy Apostle and Evangelist Mark
The young man who quit halfway through the first missionary journey, was the reason two apostles split up, and was asked for by name at the end — “he is useful to me.”
- Era
- First century
- Region
- Jerusalem, Cyprus, Rome, and Alexandria
- Category
- Evangelist, founder of the Church of Alexandria, and martyr
- Principal feast for this profile
- April 25
- Saint Ananias, Second Bishop of Alexandria (1st century)Hierarch · 1st century
What is known
A hierarch is a bishop — including patriarchs, metropolitans and archbishops. The Church commemorates bishops in this rank whether they are remembered chiefly for teaching, for governing, or for holding a see through a difficult century.
The title places them at Alexandria. The year given is the 1st century.
Beyond this, no life of them survives that could be checked — which is true of most of the saints kept on any given day. The commemoration is the record.
Appointed readings
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on April 25 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on May 8 by the civil calendar. The movable cycle, which turns on the date of Pascha and changes every year, is on the calendar page. Where a life has been written on this site the name links to it; where it has not, only what the commemoration itself attests is shown, and nothing is added to it.