Holy Apostle and Evangelist Mathew
Great Feast. A feast of the Lord or of the Theotokos.
Fast day.
Commemorated today
- Holy Apostle and Evangelist MatthewApostle life on this site
The life we have written
Holy Apostle and Evangelist Matthew
A tax collector for the occupying power, called out of the booth in the middle of a working day, who gave the Church its most Jewish Gospel.
- Era
- First century
- Region
- Capernaum, Judea, and — by tradition — Ethiopia or Parthia
- Category
- Apostle, Evangelist, and martyr
- Principal feast for this profile
- November 16
Appointed readings
- 1 Peter 1:1–2:6 continues in 2
- 1 Peter 2:21–3:9 continues in 3
- 1 Peter 4:1–11
- John 21:15–25
- 1 Corinthians 4:9–16
- Matthew 9:9–13
- Romans 10:11–11:2 continues in 11
- Matthew 9:9–13
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on November 16 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on November 29 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.