Pseudo-Epiphanius is the name given to an anonymous eighth-century Christian author of a selection of legends about the lives of the

twelve apostles In Christian theology and ecclesiology, the apostles, particularly the Twelve Apostles (also known as the Twelve Disciples or simply the Twelve), were the primary disciples of Jesus according to the New Testament. During the life and minist ...

. "Pseudo-Epiphanios, as he is now called, was the first to introduce into the stories about Andrew or the Twelve the statement that he appointed Stachys the first bishop for Byzantium. His reference to an older tradition is primarily to the Acts and "

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