Urban of Macedonia

The Holy Apostle Urban (Urbanus) is numbered among the seventy apostles, mentioned by the Apostle Paul in the Epistle to the Romans (16:9): Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ. With Ampliatus, Stachys, Narcissus, Apelles and Aristobulus, all named together by Paul, he was a helper of the Apostle Andrew.

Ampliatus and Urban accompanied Paul on his journeys in the Balkan Peninsula, so their episcopate in cities there, on the Black Sea and in the Danube delta, appears quite possible. The Apostle Andrew ordained him bishop of Macedonia. For preaching the Gospel and destroying the idol shrines he received a martyr's death at the hands of Jews and pagan Greeks. According to the Menologion of Basil, his relics, with those of Ampliatus and Stachys, were brought to Constantinople, to Pegae, at the springs. His feast is on 31 October and on 4 January, in the Synaxis of the Seventy Apostles; the Catholic Church commemorates him on 13 July.