Andrew the Apostle

Offices

• Archbishop of Constantinople (Ecumenical Patriarch) № 1 · ? – 38

Related people

• Jesus disciple of
• Jesus sent by · traditional
• Saint Peter sibling of
• Stachys the Apostle preceded · inferred

Events

• The Calling of the First Disciples 28
• Marriage at Cana 28
• Calling of the Twelve 28
• Sermon on the Mount 28
• Sending of the Twelve 29
• Feeding of the Five Thousand 29
• triumphal entry into Jerusalem 30
• Christ washing the Disciples' feet 30
• Last Supper 30
• Great Commission 30
• Ascension of Jesus 30
• Pentecost 30
• The Mission of Andrew to Scythia 40
• Martyrdom of Andrew 60

Commemorated

• The Synaxis of the Twelve Apostles
• Andrew the Apostle

Places

• Bethsaida birth
• Jerusalem ministry
• Scythia travel
• Constantinople ministry
• Patras martyrdom
• Church of the Holy Apostles burial
• Rome residence
• Veliky Novgorod residence
• Sinope residence
• Pontus residence

How we know

Recorded as a historical figure.

• Gospel of Matthew 4 claims — Sermon on the Mount; Sending of the Twelve; Last Supper
• Gospel of John 3 claims — The Calling of the First Disciples; Marriage at Cana; Christ washing the Disciples' feet
• Gospel of Mark 3 claims — Calling of the Twelve; Feeding of the Five Thousand; triumphal entry into Jerusalem
• Acts of the Apostles 1 claim — Pentecost
• Ecclesiastical History 1 claim — The Mission of Andrew to Scythia
• The Golden Legend 1 claim — Martyrdom of Andrew
• Gospel of Luke 1 claim — Ascension of Jesus
• Oriens Christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus 1 claim — Oriens Christianus I, col. 195 sqq. — Patriarchae Constantinopolitani

Written about

• St. Andrew and St. Francis
• Saint Andrew
• Saint Andrew
• Saint Andrew

Glosses

• A cross that became a flag Andrew is the First-Called in the Orthodox reckoning — the first of the Twelve to follow, and the one who brings his brother Peter. The tradition has him crucified at Patras on a diagonal cross, said to have been his…