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Apostle 1st century

Apostle Mark of the Seventy

Also known as John Mark · Mark, Bishop of Byblos

A co-worker of Paul and Barnabas, also called John Mark, counted among the Seventy and remembered as Bishop of Byblos.

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September 27
Also Oct 30
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A co-worker of Paul and Barnabas, also called John Mark, counted among the Seventy and remembered as Bishop of Byblos.

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The Seventy Apostles
Commemorated together · Jan 4
His companions & kin
Apostle
Apostles Stachys Apelles, Amplias, Urban, and Narcissus of the Seventy
Apostle
Apostles Patrobus Hermes, Linus, Gaius, and Philologus of the Seventy
Apostle
Apostles Erastus Olympas, Herodion, Sosipater, Quartus, and Tertius of the Seventy
Apostle
Apostles Sosthenes Apollos, Cephas, Tychicus, Epaphroditus, Caesar, and Onesiphorus of the Seventy
Equal-to-the-Apostles
Nicholas Enlightener of Japan
Hierarch
Photius the Great Patriarch of Constantinople
Notes

Apostle of the Seventy; the OCA cycle distinguishes him from Mark the Evangelist (OS-1061). Oct 30 = his commemoration as Bishop of Apollonia.

Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints