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Saint

Agapitus

A bishop commemorated together with Saint Asaph.

Feast
May 1old style May 14
Reposed
4185th century
Place
Auxerre

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.

Commemorated the same day May 1