The names of the twelve apostles who preached the gospel of Christ and how they died
1. Simon Peter, the foremost of the apostles, as is evident through his letters, preached the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Bithynia, Italy, Asia, and Illyricum; later, under King Nero in Rome, he was crucified upside down, being worthy to suffer thus, and was buried in Rome three days before the Kalends of July.
2. Andrew, his brother, as those before us have handed down, preached to the Scythians, the Sogdians, the Gorsini, and in the great Sebasteopolis, where the colony of Apsarus is, and the port of Issus, and the Phasis river, where the Ethiopians dwell; he was buried in Patrae of Achaia, having been fastened to a cross by Aegeas, the king of Patrae.
3. James, the son of Zebedee, brother of John the Evangelist, preached the gospel of Christ to the twelve tribes of the Dispersion, but was put to death by the sword under Herod, the tetrarch of the Jews, and was buried there in Judea.
4. John, his brother, preached the gospel of Christ in Asia, but was exiled by the Roman Emperor Trajan to the island of Patmos because of the word of the Lord; while there, he wrote the Gospel according to John and released it through Gaius the host; after the death of Trajan, he returned from the island to Ephesus and was buried there, living until he was ninety years of age by the will of God.
5. Philip the apostle, who was from the village of Bethsaida of Peter and Andrew, preached the gospel in Upper Phrygia; he dies in Hierapolis and is buried there gloriously with his own.
6. Bartholomew the apostle preached the gospel of Christ to the Indians, who are called the Eudaimon; having written the holy Gospel according to Matthew for them in their own dialect, he fell asleep in the great city of Albanopolis in Armenia and was buried there.
7. Thomas the apostle, as the tradition contains, was from the city of Panias in Galilee; he preached the gospel of the Lord to the Parthians and the Medes, and also to the Persians, the Germans, the Hyrcanians, the Indians, the Bactrians, and the Magi, and fell asleep in the city of Calaminus in India.
8. Matthew the Evangelist was from Jerusalem, and there he wrote the gospel of the Lord in the Hebrew dialect and released it to the saints...
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Index apostolorum ΤΑ ΟΝΟΜΑΤΑ ΤΩΝ ∆Ω∆ΕΚΑ ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΩΝ ΠΟΥ ΕΚΗΡΥΞΑΝ ΤΟ ΕΥΑΓΓΕΛΙΟΝ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΠΩΣ ΕΤΕΛΕΙΩΘΗΣΑΝ. ΕΠΙΦΑΝΙΟΥ. αʹ. Σίμων Πέτρος ὁ τῶν ἀποστόλων κορυφαῖος, ὡς διὰ τῶν ἐπιστολῶν αὐτοῦ φαίνεται δηλῶν ἐν Πόντῳ καὶ Γαλα 108 τίᾳ καὶ Καππαδοκίᾳ καὶ Βιθυνίᾳ καὶ ἐν Ἰταλίᾳ, Ἀσίᾳ καὶ ἐν τῷ Ἰλλυρικῷ ἐκήρυξε τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, ὕστερον δὲ ἐν Ῥώμῃ ἐπὶ Νέρωνος βασιλέως σταυροῦται κατὰ κεφαλῆς, αὐτοῦ οὕτως παθεῖν ἀξιώσαντος, θάπτεται δὲ ἐν αὐτῇ τῇ Ῥώμῃ πρὸ τριῶν Καλανδῶν Ἰουλίων, ὅ ἐστιν Ἐπιφὶ εʹ. βʹ. Ἀνδρέας δὲ ὁ ἀδελφὸς αὐτοῦ, ὡς οἱ πρὸ ἡμῶν παραδεδώκασιν, ἐκήρυξε Σκύθαις καὶ Σογδιανοῖς καὶ Γορσίνοις καὶ ἐν Σεβαστοπόλει τῇ μεγάλῃ, ὅπου ἐστὶν ἡ παρεμβολὴ Ἄψαρος καὶ Ὕσσου λιμὴν καὶ Φᾶσις ποταμός, ἔνθα οἰκοῦσιν 109 Αἰθίοπες, θάπτεται δὲ ἐν Πάτραις τῆς Ἀχαίας σταυρῷ προσδεθεὶς ὑπὸ Αἰγέα τοῦ βασιλέως Πατρῶν. γʹ. Ἰάκωβος δὲ ὁ τοῦ Ζεβεδαίου, ἀδελφὸς δὲ Ἰωάννου τοῦ εὐαγγελιστοῦ, ταῖς δώδεκα φυλαῖς τῆς διασπορᾶς ἐκήρυξε τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τοῦ Χριστοῦ, ὑπὸ δὲ Ἡρώδου τοῦ τετράρχου τῶν Ἰουδαίων ἀνῃρέθη μαχαίρᾳ καὶ ἐκεῖ ἐτάφη ἐν τῇ Ἰουδαίᾳ. δʹ. Ἰωάννης δὲ ὁ ἀδελφὸς αὐτοῦ, ἐν μὲν τῇ Ἀσίᾳ ἐκήρυξε τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τοῦ Χριστοῦ, ὑπὸ δὲ Τραιανοῦ τοῦ βασιλέως τῶν Ῥωμαίων ἐξορισθεὶς ὑπ' αὐτοῦ ἐν Πάτμῳ τῇ νήσῳ διὰ τοῦ λόγου τοῦ κυρίου, ἐκεῖ ὢν συνέγραψε τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τὸ κατὰ Ἰωάννην, καὶ ἐξέδοτο αὐτὸ διὰ Γαΐου 110 τοῦ ξενοδόχου, μετὰ δὲ τὴν Τραιανοῦ τελευτὴν ἐπάνεισιν ἀπὸ τῆς νήσου εἰς τὴν Ἔφεσον καὶ ἐκεῖ ζῶντα ἑαυτὸν ἔθαψεν, ὢν ἐτῶν ρκʹ τῇ τοῦ θεοῦ βουλήσει. εʹ. Φίλιππος δὲ ὁ ἀπόστολος· οὗτος ἦν ἀπὸ Βηθσαιδᾶ ἐκ τῆς κώμης Πέτρου καὶ Ἀνδρέου, ἐν δὲ τῇ ἄνω Φρυγίᾳ ἐκήρυξε τὸ εὐαγγέλιον, θνήσκει δὲ ἐν Ἱεραπόλει καὶ ἐκεῖ θάπτεται ἐνδόξως μετὰ τῶν αὐτοῦ. ς ʹ. Βαρθολομαῖος δὲ ὁ ἀπόστολος Ἰνδοῖς τοῖς καλουμένοις Εὐδαίμοσιν ἐκήρυξε τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τοῦ Χριστοῦ καὶ τὸ κατὰ Ματθαῖον ἅγιον εὐαγγέλιον αὐτοῖς τῇ ἰδίᾳ διαλέκτῳ αὐτῶν συγγράψας ἐκοιμήθη δὲ ἐν Ἀλβανίᾳ πόλει τῆς μεγάλης Ἀρμενίας καὶ ἐκεῖ ἐτάφη. 111 ζʹ. Θωμᾶς δὲ ὁ ἀπόστολος, καθὼς ἡ παράδοσις περιέχει, ἦν μὲν ἀπὸ τῆς Πανιάδος πόλεως τῆς Γαλιλαίας, Πάρθοις δὲ καὶ Μήδοις ἐκήρυξε τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τοῦ κυρίου, καὶ Πέρσαις δὲ καὶ Γερμανοῖς καὶ Ὑρκανοῖς καὶ Ἰνδοῖς καὶ Βάκτροις καὶ Μάγοις, ἐκοιμήθη ἐν πόλει Καλαμηνῇ τῆς Ἰνδικῆς. ηʹ. Ματθαῖος δὲ ὁ εὐαγγελιστὴς ἦν ἀπὸ Ἱερουσαλὴμ καὶ ἐκεῖ συνέγραψε τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τοῦ κυρίου τῇ ἑβραίδι διαλέκτῳ, καὶ ἐξέδωκεν αὐτὸ τοῖς ἁγίοις
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Discover the journeys and martyrdoms of the apostles as recorded by Epiphanius of Salamis.
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- Copy-text PG 41–43 (Khazarzar) (Greek)
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