Asyncritus of Hyrcania, also Asynkritos ( el, Ἀσύγκριτος, meaning "incomparable"), was numbered among the Seventy Disciples. He was

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of Hyrcania in Asia.

Saint Paul Paul; grc, Παῦλος, translit=Paulos; cop, ⲡⲁⲩⲗⲟⲥ; hbo, פאולוס השליח (previously called Saul of Tarsus;; ar, بولس الطرسوسي; grc, Σαῦλος Ταρσεύς, Saũlos Tarseús; tr, Tarsuslu Pavlus; ...

mentions him in his letter to the Romans (cf. 16:14). The Church remembers St. Asyncritus on April 8.

Hymns

Troparion ( Tone 1)

:Let us praise in hymns the six–fold choir of Apostles: : Apostle Herodian, Herodion and Agabus, : Rufus, Asyncritus, Phlegon and holy

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. :They ever entreat the Trinity for our souls!

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(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

External links

Apostle Asyncritus of the Seventy
January 4 (

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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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Asyncritus Of Hyrcania Seventy disciples 1st-century bishops in Roman Anatolia Persian saints People in the Pauline epistles