Holy Apostle Titus of the 70, Bishop of Crete

Titus was a Greek convert and close companion of the apostle Paul. Paul took him, uncircumcised, to the council in Jerusalem (Galatians 2:1–3), sent him to Corinth to settle the troubles there and to gather the collection for Jerusalem, and left him in Crete to appoint elders in every town (Titus 1:5); the Letter to Titus is addressed to him. Tradition makes him the first bishop of Crete. St Dimitry's account, after the Greek Life, says he was a Cretan of noble birth who studied Homer and the poets in his youth, and that he died on the island in old age, at ninety-four.