Archbishop Theophilus, Romanus
On this day died the holy father, Theophilus, the twenty-third Archbishop of the city of Alexandria. He was appointed in the sixth year of the reign of Theodosius the Great.
From the Synaxarium
Tikimt 18 · October 28
3 commemorations
John, 'Adrani, 'Artematewos, Hephaestus, Luderius, 'Asmanit and his 7 children
The book records the name only.
On this day died Romanus the martyr in the days of Asclepianus, the governor who persecuted the Christians. This Romanus had been a monk from his earliest years, and he devoted himself strenuously to fasting and prayer.
From the Synaxarium, the Book of the Saints of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, in the translation of Sir E. A. Wallis Budge (1928). Summarised — the full account is longer.
