Saint
Eros
Bishop of Antioch
A bishop of Antioch, also called Heros, a saint of the undivided Church, commemorated in the Syriac Martyrology of 411.
Life
Eros of Antioch, also called Heros, was a bishop of Antioch, a saint of the undivided Church.
The Syriac Martyrology of 411 commemorates him on 5 May, by the Julian calendar (old style), as "Heros, bishop of Antioch". Eusebius of Caesarea places him in the line of the bishops of Antioch, as the successor of Saint Ignatius the God-bearer. No further details of his life or end have survived.
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