Apostle of the 70, Bishop, Hieromartyr Euodius of Antioch, Apostle of the 70, Bishop

Hieromartyr Euodius, Apostle of the Seventy, was appointed by the Apostle Peter as the first Bishop of Antioch in Syria and governed that Church for 27 years. According to church-historical tradition, it was during the episcopate of St. Euodius that the followers of Christ in Antioch were first called Christians (Acts 11:26). St. Euodius zealously preached the Gospel, strengthened new converts in the faith, and wrote several works that have not survived in full — among them a work titled "The Lamp" (Λύχνος), mentioned by the 14th-century Byzantine historian Nicephorus Callistus, as well as a treatise on the Theotokos which, per the same historian, claimed the Virgin Mary bore the Savior at the age of fifteen. Having suffered a martyr's death for Christ under Emperor Nero around AD 66, St. Euodius passed the see of Antioch to his successor, the Hieromartyr Ignatius the God-Bearer. His memory is kept on September 7/20, and also on January 4 in the Synaxis of the Seventy Apostles.

Note on the original entry: the word "Eudia" in the database was a garbled rendering of the name "Euodius"/"Evod" (possible confusion with the New Testament Euodia mentioned by St. Paul in Philippians 4:2 — however, she has no individual liturgical veneration in the Orthodox Church, whereas Euodius of Antioch is a genuinely glorified hieromartyr and Apostle of the Seventy).