Helenus

Holy Hierarch Helenus was bishop of Alexandria Scabiosa in Cilicia (today Iskenderun in Turkey) in the second or third century. He is not the bishop of Alexandria in Egypt.

According to the historian Le Quien, he baptized the martyr Eugenia of Rome in the time of the emperor Commodus. Other sources say, however, that the baptism was performed by Helenus of Heliopolis or Helenus of Tarsus, so the identification remains uncertain. The information is scanty and the veneration is mainly Western; Helenus is counted a saint of the undivided Church, with no synodal canonization shown by the sources.