Euphrasius

Holy Hierarch Euphrasius was bishop of the city of Ionopolis and departed this life in peace. No details of his life have been preserved, and the Greek synaxarion says only that he shepherded the Church there and passed to the eternal rest quietly.

The verses that commemorate him urge him to go gladly on the road to heaven, since he was worthy through his works. The Church honours him as a hierarch of the early centuries, on 17 July (new style).