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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Saint

Elfod

A hierarch, commemorated in the early Celtic calendars; very little is recorded.

Uncertain source. We are looking to verify this information as soon as we can.

Reposed
8099th century
Order
Hierarchs

Life

Saint Elfod (also Elbod or Elfodd) was a bishop of Bangor in north Wales. The late and unreliable Iolo manuscripts call him archbishop of Gwynedd and a son of Goleudrem. The older sources say he became bishop of Bangor in 755 and persuaded the northern Welsh to accept the Roman reckoning of Easter, an important change for the Welsh Church. The Welsh annals call him a man of God and record his death in 809. No life of him survives, and the veneration is local, without synodal canonization.