Tertius

Saint Tertius, apostle, according to tradition one of the Seventy Apostles, was a Christian of Corinth, who wrote down, for the Apostle Paul, the Epistle to the Romans. The second bishop of Iconium, he received there the death of a martyr for Christ, in the first century. The Orthodox Church commemorates him by the old calendar on 30 October and on 10 November, and, among the Seventy, in the first month of the year.

Paul mentions him in the Epistle to the Romans (16:22), where Tertius names himself as the one who wrote the epistle. Some authors consider that Tertius copied the epistle from Paul's own manuscript and that he may have made a translation of it into Greek, since the letter to the Romans might have been written in Latin.

After Sosipater, Tertius was the second bishop of Iconium, where he received the death of a martyr for Christ. According to tradition he was pierced with a sharpened stake.

A Ukrainian source gives as days of commemoration 4 January, 30 October and 10 November (by the old calendar). The date of 30 June, of the Synaxis of the Apostles, does not fit the sources.