1. St. James, bishop of Jerusalem
2. St. Cleopas, bishop of Jerusalem.
3. St. Matthias, who supplied the vacant place in the number of the twelve apostles.
4. St. Thaddeus, who conveyed the epistle to Augarus.
5. St. Ananias, who baptized St. Paul, and was bishop of Damascus.
6. St. Stephen, the first martyr.
7. St. Philip, who baptized the eunuch.
8. St. Prochorus, bishop of Nicomedia, who also was the first that departed, 11 believing together with his daughters.
9. St. Nicanor died when St. Stephen was martyred.
10. St. Timon, bishop of Bostra.
11. St. Parmenas, bishop of Soli.
12. St. Nicolaus, bishop of Samaria.
13. St. Barnabas, bishop of Milan.
14. St. Mark the evangelist, bishop of Alexandria.
15. St. Luke the evangelist.
16. St. Silas, bishop of Corinth.
17. St. Silvanus, bishop of Thessalonica.
18. St. Crisces (Crescens), bishop of Carchedon in Gaul.
19. St. Epænetus, bishop of Carthage.
20. St. Andronicus, bishop of Pannonia.
21. St. Amplias, bishop of Odyssus.
22. St. Urban, bishop of Macedonia.
23. St. Stachys, bishop of Byzantium.
24. St. Barnabas, bishop of Heraclea
25. St. Phygellus, bishop of Ephesus.
26. St. Hermogenes.
27. St. Demas, who also became a priest
28. St. Apelles, bishop of Smyrna.
29. St. Aristobulus, bishop of Britain.
30. St. Narcissus, bishop of Athens.
31. St. Herodion, bishop of Tarsus.
32. St. Agabus
33. St. Rufus, bishop of Thebes.
34. St. Asyncritus, bishop of Hyrcania.
35. St. Phlegon, bishop of Marathon.
36. St. Hermes, bishop of Dalmatia.
37. St. Patrobulus,1 bishop of Puteoli.
38. St. Hermas, bishop of Philippi.
39. Pope Linus, bishop of Rome.
40. St. Caius, bishop of Ephesus.
41. St. Philologus, bishop of Sinope
42, 43. Sts. Olympus and Rhodion were martyred in Rome.
44. St. Lucius, bishop of Laodicea in Syria.
45. St. Jason, bishop of Tarsus.
46. St. Sosipater, bishop of Iconium
47. St. Tertius, bishop of Iconium.
48. St. Erastus, bishop of Panellas.
49. St. Quartus, bishop of Berytus.
50. St. Apollo, bishop of Cæsarea.
51. St. Cephas.
52. St. Sosthenes, bishop of Colophonia.
53. St. Tychicus, bishop of Colophonia.
54. St. EPaphroditus, bishop of Andriace.
55. St. Cæsar, bishop of Dyrrachium.
56. St. Mark, cousin to Barnabas, bishop of Apollonia.
57. St. Justus, bishop of Eleutheropolis.
58. St. Artemas, bishop of Lystra.
59. St. Clement, bishop of Sardinia.
60. St. Onesiphorus, bishop of Corone.
61. St. Tychicus, bishop of Chalcedon.
62. St. Carpus, bishop of Berytus in Thrace.
63. St. Evodus, bishop of Antioch.
64. St. Aristarchus, bishop of Apamea.
65. St. Mark, who is also John, bishop of Bibloupolis.
66. St. Zenas, bishop of Diospolis.
67. St. Philemon, bishop of Gaza
68. St. Aristarchus
69. St. Pudes
70. St. Trophimus who was martyred with St. Paul
“Through countryside and city the apostles preached, and they appointed their earliest converts, testing them by the Spirit, to be the bishops and deacons of future believers. Nor was this a novelty, for bishops and deacons had been written about a long time earlier. . . . Our apostles knew through our Lord Jesus Christ that there would be strife for the office of bishop. For this reason, therefore, having received perfect foreknowledge, they appointed those who have already been mentioned and afterwards added the further provision that, if they should die, other approved men should succeed to their ministry”- Pope Clement I (Letter to the Corinthians 42:4–5, 44:1–3 [A.D. 80].
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