title: Asyncritus of Hyrcania
text: # 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
  