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ST EVODIUS, BISHOP OF ANTIOCH - 6 MAY

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 6th of May WELCOME! SAINT EVODIUS, BISHOP OF ANTIOCH  Saint Evodius was the first Bishop of Antioch after St Peter.  Eusebius mentions him thus in his "History": "And Evodius having been established the first [bishop] of the Antiochians, Ignatius flourished at this time" ( III, 22 ). The time referred to is that of Clement of Rome and Trajan, of whom  Eusebius  has just spoken. THE LIST OF BISHOPS OF ANTIOCH Harnack has shown (after discarding an earlier theory of his own)  Eusebius   possessed a list of the bishops of Antioch which did not give their dates, and that he was obliged to synchronize them roughly with the popes. It seems certain that he took the three episcopal lists of Rome, Alexandria, and Antioch from the "Chronography" which Julius Africanus published in 221. The "Chronicle of  Eusebius " is lost; but in Jerome’s translation of it we find in three successive years the three...