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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Saint

Onesimus

Archbishop of Ephesus

An archbishop of Ephesus, commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.

Feast
December 1old style December 14
Era
unknown
Place
Ephesus
Order
Hierarchs

Life

Saint Onesimus was archbishop of Ephesus and is commemorated on 1 December (new style, the Greek calendar). The synaxarion says that he reposed in peace. In some sources he is called Onesiphorus, together with Solomon, also a bishop of Ephesus.

A verse, playing on his name, says that though the body of Onesimus has gone into the earth, it pours out the beneficial grace to those in need. No further details of his life are preserved.

Commemorated the same day December 1