Olympas

The Holy Apostle Olympas (Olympanas) is one of the seventy apostles, mentioned once in the Epistle to the Romans, where Paul writes: Greet... Olympas, and all the saints who are with them (16:15), around the year 65. The name means heavenly.

There are no other mentions of him in the New Testament. Church tradition, preserved in the Greek menaia and in the Menaion of Demetrius of Rostov, says that he went to Rome with the Apostle Peter, together with Herodion, and received a martyr's death, beheaded in the time of Nero (according to some in the year 54, or, according to the hymns, on the same day as Peter). There is no news that he held a bishop's see. His feast is on 10 November, together with Herodion, Sosipater, Tertius, Erastus and Quartus, and on 4 January, in the Synaxis of the Seventy Apostles.