Saint
Agapitus
A bishop commemorated together with Saint Asaph.
Life
Saint Agapitus the Hierarch, called Amator in the West, was bishop of Auxerre in France and a confessor of the faith; he reposed in the year 418. He is commemorated on 1 May (new style, the calendar of the Church of Greece) together with Asaph, the bishop in North Wales, who lived around the year 600. As a saint of the time of the undivided Church, he is also honoured in Western synaxaria.
The sources consulted give no other details about his life.
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