6th November: Memory of our Father among the Saints, Paul the Confessor, Bishop of Constantinople (+351) A native of Thessalonica, Saint Paul was the secretary of Alexander, the Bishop of Constantinople. After the latters death, the Orthodox elected him Bishop of Constantinople in 337 while Emperor Constantius was in Antioch. Having returned from Antioch, Constantius expelled him from his see in 339. The Saint arrived in Rome at the same time that Saint Athanasius, the Archbishop of Alexandria, was himself expelled from his see. Supplied with letters from Pope Saint Julius I, Saint Paul resumed possession of his Church in 340 but was expelled from it again after a short time in 342 by the intrigues of the Arians. After the Council of Sardica (343-344), by the intervention of Constans, the brother of Constantius, he re-ascended his throne in 346. When Constans died in Rome in 350, he was again persecuted (351) and exiled to Cucusus in Armenia, where he was strangled by order of the Arians. (Source: rongolini) Apolytikion: Ἦχος γ’. Αὐτόμελον. Θείας πίστεως ὁμολογία, ἄλλον Παῦλόν σε τῇ Ἐκκλησίᾳ, ζηλωτὴν ἐν ἱερεῦσιν ἀνέδειξε· συνεκβοᾷ σοι καὶ Ἄβελ πρὸς Κύριον, καὶ Ζαχαρίου τὸ αἷμα τὸ δίκαιον. Πάτερ Ὅσιε, Χριστὸν τὸν Θεὸν ἱκέτευε, δωρήσασθαι ἡμῖν τὸ μέγα ἔλεος. https://youtube/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=LBulGC8-BHU#t=6
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 19:04:02 +0000