Cornelius the Centurion

Feast · apostle

  • 2 February (Roman Catholic Church)
  • 13 September (Eastern Orthodox Church)

The first Gentile baptised, and the man whose household forced the question the Council of Jerusalem later answered. Byzantium keeps him on 13 September among the Seventy; the Roman Martyrology gives him 2 February. Wikidata carried only the Roman day and named no church on it.

After The Typikon.

Commemorating

Where this is recorded

  • Roman Catholic Church — the day, after Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the Calendar
  • Eastern Orthodox Church — the day, after Synaxarium Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae e codice Sirmondiano nunc Berolinensi, coll. 37–38, Sep. 13

Also on 13 September