Eros

Saint Eros (Heros) was bishop of Antioch, successor of Saint Ignatius the God-⁠bearer on the throne of the city, from about 154 to about 169. Eusebius of Caesarea places the beginning of his episcopate in the fifth year of Antoninus Pius, and his successor Theophilus in the ninth year of Marcus Aurelius; Jerome says it began in 142, but this date is doubted. Nothing is known of his episcopate, although it was a time of great persecution for the Church.