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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Saint

Helenus

Bishop of Tarsus

Bishop of Tarsus in Cilicia, from the time of the undivided Church.

Feast
November 23old style December 6
Era
3rd century
Place
Tarsus, Cilicia
Order
Hierarchs

Life

Saint Helenus was a bishop of Tarsus, in Cilicia, in the third century. The Greek synaxarion says only that he reposed in peace, with no other details of his life.

He is commemorated on 23 November, by the church calendar of the Church of Greece, together with Saint Amphilochius of Iconium and Saint Gregory of Agrigentum.

Commemorated the same day November 23