Asyncritus of Hyrcania
# Asyncritus of Hyrcania

Asyncritus of Hyrcania, also Asynkritos (Greek: Ἀσύγκριτος, meaning "incomparable"), was numbered among the Seventy Disciples. He was bishop of Hyrcania in Asia. Saint Paul mentions him in his letter to the Romans (cf. 16:14). The Church remembers St. Asyncritus on April 8.

## Hymns

Troparion (Tone 1)

    Let us praise in hymns the six–fold choir of Apostles:
    Herodion and Agabus,
    Rufus, Asyncritus, Phlegon and holy Hermes.
    They ever entreat the Trinity for our souls!

Kontakion (Tone 2)

    You became the disciples of Christ
    And all-holy Apostles,
    O glorious Herodion, Agabus and Rufus,
    Asyncritus, Phlegon and Hermes.
    Ever entreat the Lord
    To grant forgiveness of transgressions
    To us who sing your praises.

Kontakion (Tone 4)

    Like stars, O holy Apostles,
    You illumine the way of the faithful with the light of the Holy Spirit.
    You dispel the darkness of error as you gaze on God the Word!

## Sources

* St. Nikolai Velimirovic, The Prologue from Ohrid
