Saint Euphebius (''Ephebus, Euphemus, Efrimus'') is venerated as a
patron saint
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and
bishop of Naples
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.
[Henry Wace and William George Smith (editors), ''A Dictionary of Christian biography, literature, sects and doctrines: being a continuation of "The dictionary of the Bible".'', Volume 2 (Murray, 1880), 291.] Ferdinando Ughelli
Ferdinando Ughelli (21 March 1595 – 19 May 1670) was an Italian Cistercian monk and church historian.
Biography
He was born in Florence. He entered the Cistercian Order and was sent to the Gregorian University in Rome, where he studied under t ...
writes that the date of Euphebius' episcopate cannot be determined with certainty.
There is no biography of Euphebius’ life.
Paulus Regius and
Baronius
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theorized that Euphebius died in 713 AD, but
Joannes Diaconus considers Euphebius the eighth bishop of Naples, succeeding
St. Eustasius (Eustathius), which would have his episcopate occur sometime in the 2nd century.
He is commemorated in the Roman Martyrology on May 23.
References
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Italian saints
Bishops of Naples