Equal-to-apostles or equal-to-the-apostles is a special title given to some saints in Eastern Orthodoxy and in Byzantine Catholicism. The title, Ισαπόστολος, is bestowed as a recognition of these saints' outstanding service in the spreading and assertion of Christianity, comparable to that of the original apostles.
Equal-to-apostles or equal-to-the-apostles is a special title given to some saints in Eastern Orthodoxy and in Byzantine Catholicism. The title, Ισαπόστολος, is bestowed as a recognition of these saints' outstanding service in the spreading and assertion of Christianity, comparable to that of the original apostles.
==Examples== Below is a partial list of saints who are called equal-to-the-apostles: Mary Magdalene (1st century) Photine, the Samaritan woman at the well (1st century) Thecla (1st century) Apphia (1st century) Abercius of Hieropolis (2nd century) Gregory Thaumaturgus (c. 213 - 270), student of Origen, and ranked as equal to the Apostles by Basil in “On Holy Spirit”, Chapter 29 Anak the Parthian (3rd century), father of first Catholicos of Armenians–Gregory the Illuminator Helena of Constantinople (c. 250 – c. 330) Constantine the Great (c. 272 – 337) Nino (c. 296 – c. 338 or 340), baptizer of the Georgians Mirian III of Iberia (died 361), first Christian Georgian monarch Nana of Iberia (4th century) Patrick of Ireland (5th century) Cyril (827–869) Rastislav of Moravia (870) Methodius (815–885) Angelar (died after 885) Photios I of Constantinople () (9th century) Boris I of Bulgaria (died 907) Naum of Ohrid (died 910) Clement of Ohrid (died 916) Olga of Kiev (–969) Vladimir the Great (–1015) Olaf II of Norway (–1030), baptiser of Norway Stephen I of Hungary (969–1038) Sava of Serbia (1169/1174–1236) Cosmas of Aetolia (1714–1779) Innocent of Alaska (1797–1879) Nicholas of Japan (1836–1912)
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