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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Saint

Africanus

Bishop of Lugdunum

A hierarch of Gaul, bishop of the city called Lugdunum, commemorated in Western calendars.

Feast
May 1old style May 14
Era
unknown
Order
Hierarchs

Life

Holy Hierarch Africanus was bishop of the city of Lugdunum (today Lyon) in Gaul. The Greek synaxarion commemorates him on 1 May, but has no details of his life. He is a saint of the undivided Church, known from the Western calendars.

Commemorated the same day May 1