Holy Apostle Andrew the First Called
Polyeleos. Kept with the Polyeleos at Matins.
Fast day.
Commemorated today
- Holy, Glorious and Illustrious Apostle Andrew the First-CalledApostle life on this site
The life we have written
Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called
The brother who found the Messiah and immediately went to get someone else — and about whose long later life almost nothing can be proved.
- Era
- First century
- Region
- Galilee, Judea, and — by tradition — the shores of the Black Sea and Achaea
- Category
- Apostle and martyr
- Principal feast for this profile
- November 30
- Our Venerable Father Frumentius, first Bishop of Ethiopia (4th century)Hierarch · 4th 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 Ethiopia. The year given is the 4th 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.
- Alexander the Wonderworker, Archbishop of MithymnaHierarch
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 Mithymna. Kept in the Greek tradition.
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
- 1 Peter 1:1–2:6 continues in 2
- 1 Peter 2:21–3:9 continues in 3
- 1 Peter 4:1–11
- Matthew 4:18–23
- 1 Corinthians 4:9–16
- John 1:35–51
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on November 30 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on December 13 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.