Saint of the Day – 31 October – St Stachys (1st Century) the 1st Bishop of Constantinople.
The Roman Martyrology reads today: “At Constantinople, St Stachys, Bishop, who was Consecrated as the first Bishop of that City by the blessed Apostle, Andrew.”
Stachys is a Greek name, meaning “ear of corn, or fruit.” He is mentioned in Romans 16:9: “Greet Urban and my dear Stachys.”
We know nothing else about him except the accounts handed down to us by the Greeks – the Apostle St Andrew Consecrated him as the first Bishop of Byzantium or Argyropolis. Stachys founded a Church at Argyropouli, and many people gathered there to hear him preach.
It is not clear if Stachys was the same person whom Paul calls “dear” in the Epistle to the Romans but he is always associated in traditions with five other disciples, (Ampliatus, Urban of Macedonia, Apelles of Heraklion, Aristobulus of Britannia and Narcissus of Athens) that are the very same names mentioned together with him by Paul in Romans 16:8–11.
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