Prochorus (deacon)

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Early Christian saint and bishop

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::summary Early Christian saint and bishop ::

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Field	Value
honorific_prefix	Saint
name	Prochorus
death_date	1st century AD
feast_day	9 April (Catholic)
28 July (Orthodox)

| | 20 Tobi (Coptic){{Cite web|url | http://www.copticchurch.net/synaxarium/5_20.html#1|title = Toba 20 : Lives of Saints : Synaxarium - CopticChurch.net}} | | venerated_in | Eastern Orthodox Church Oriental Orthodox Churches Roman Catholic Church | | image | Dark Church St. Prochor, a disciple of St. John the Theologian in 2004 6903.jpg | | caption | 11th-century Eastern Orthodox fresco and icon in the Dark Church, Göreme, Turkey | | death_place | Antioch, Province of Syria, Roman Empire | | titles | Bishop of Nicomedia, Deacon, Hieromartyr | | canonized_date | Pre-congregation | | attributes | depicted as a scribe taking dictation of the Book of Revelation from Saint John the Theologian | ::

20 Tobi (Coptic) |venerated_in=Eastern Orthodox Church Oriental Orthodox Churches Roman Catholic Church |image=Dark Church St. Prochor, a disciple of St. John the Theologian in 2004 6903.jpg |caption=11th-century Eastern Orthodox fresco and icon in the Dark Church, Göreme, Turkey |birth_place= |death_place=Antioch, Province of Syria, Roman Empire |titles=Bishop of Nicomedia, Deacon, Hieromartyr |canonized_date=Pre-congregation |canonized_place= |canonized_by= |attributes=depicted as a scribe taking dictation of the Book of Revelation from Saint John the Theologian |major_shrine= |suppressed_date= |patronage= Prochorus (, Prochoros) was one of the Seven Deacons chosen to care for the poor of the Christian community in Jerusalem (Acts ). According to holy tradition, he was also one of the Seventy Disciples sent out by Jesus in Luke 10.

Tradition calls Prochorus the nephew of Saint Stephen the Protomartyr. Prochorus accompanied Saint Peter, who ordained him to be the bishop in the city of Nicomedia. He is also thought to have been a companion of Saint John the Apostle, who consecrated him bishop of Nicomedia in Bithynia. Some modern scholars dispute his having been the author of the apocryphal Acts of John, which is dated by them to the end of the 2nd century. According to the late tradition, he was the bishop of Antioch and ended his life as a martyr in Antioch in the 1st century.

In Orthodox iconography, he is depicted as a scribe of John the Theologian. He is one of four out of the Seven Deacons of the Seventy Apostles to be jointly celebrated on 28 July.

Gallery

Prochorus.jpg|John the Evangelist with Prochorus Prochorus and St John Miniature, 1224.jpg| Prochorus and St John depicted in Xoranasat's gospel manuscript in 1224.

References

"Toba 20 : Lives of Saints : Synaxarium - CopticChurch.net".
[http://ocafs.oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?FSID=102109 Feasts and Saints] – OCA
[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13741c.htm ''Seven Deacons''] – Catholic Encyclopedia
Ehrman, Bart D.. (2003). "Lost scriptures : books that did not make it into the New Testament". Oxford Univ. Press.
"The Ecole Glossary".
[https://books.google.com/books?id=QlnkCkrpSPsC&dq=%22Prochorus+diacon%22&pg=PA542 Martyrologium Romanum ad Novam Kalendarii]
{{BBKL. p/prochoros. Ekkart Sauser

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