Justus of Alexandria

Saint Justus was the sixth bishop and patriarch of Alexandria, from 118 to 129, in the time of the emperor Hadrian. He was an honourable and learned man even before his ordination.

He was baptized by Saint Mark the Evangelist, together with his father, his mother and others. Saint Mark also made him the first dean of the Catechetical School of Alexandria. Anianus, the second patriarch, ordained him deacon, then priest, and set him to preach and teach the people. He was chosen patriarch to succeed Primus and shepherded his people with the greatest care for ten years.

He departed to the Lord on the 12th of Paoni, in the year 129, in the sixteenth year of Hadrian's reign, at a great age, and was buried with his predecessors.