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Apostle

Clement

Bishop of Sardica

A bishop of Sardica, remembered in the calendars of the Church.

Feast
January 4old style January 17
Era
1st century

Life

Saint Clement of Sardis, Apostle, is numbered among the Seventy Apostles of the Lord and was bishop of the city of Sardis in Asia Minor. No detailed accounts of his deeds survive in the sources consulted.

The Church commemorates him on 4 January, at the synaxis of the Seventy, on 22 April together with Saints Nathanael and Luke, and on 10 September together with Saints Apelles and Lucius (dates of the Orthodox Menaion). The principal source cited is the Prologue from Ohrid of Saint Nikolai Velimirovich.

Commemorated the same day January 4