Saint
Aprion
Bishop in Cyprus
A hierarch of Cyprus, commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.
- Feast
- February 6old style February 19
- Era
- unknown
- Place
- Cyprus
- Order
- Hierarchs
Life
Holy Hierarch Aprion (also called Euprion) was a bishop in Cyprus and is commemorated on 7 February (new style). His name is found in the Synaxarion of Constantinople.
He reposed in peace. A verse of the synaxarion says that Christ calls him to hasten to the prize of the inheritance above. No other details of his life and ministry have survived in the sources consulted.
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