Standard abbreviation: List Apost. Marr.
Other titles: none
Clavis numbers: ECCA 240
Category: Lists of Apostles and Disciples
Related literature:
Compiled by: Tony Burke, York University ([email protected])
Citing this resource (using Chicago Manual of Style): Burke, Tony. “List of Married and Celibate Apostles.” e-Clavis: Christian Apocrypha. Accessed DAY MONTH YEAR. https://www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-christian-apocrypha/list-of-married-and-celibate-apostles/.
Created May 2023.
1. TRANSLATION (based on Leloir’s French translation)
About the apostles: which were married and which (were) not.
The name of the wife of the apostle Peter was Gogia; his sons <were called> Joel and Yovnana, and <his> only daughter Sabistha.
James and John <remained> virgins.
Andrew’s wife was <named> Antoli; <they had> a daughter, Mary.
Paul’s wife was <named> Mariadon and <their> sons Saul and Tikos.
Philip’s wife <was called> Thēokti and <his> son Theophilus.
Thomas <remained> a virgin.
Bartholomew’s wife <was> Thomosia; <they had> a son, Bartimios.
Matthew’s wife was <named> Sktania; <they had> a son, Matathia,
James remained a virgin.
Simon’s wife <was> Mari; <they had> a son, Oserki.
The wife of Judas of James <was called> Thēopistis; <they had> a son, Kalistratos.
Such are the disciples of Christ. Furthermore, it is well known that Jesus baptized with his own hands only Peter; Peter baptized his brother Andrew; Andrew baptized James and John, the sons of Zebedee; and John and James the other apostles. Peter and John baptized the most holy Mother of God.
2. RESOURCES
3. BIBLIOGRAPHY
3.1 Manuscripts and Editions
3.1.1 Armenian (BHO 91)
Venice, Biblioteca dei Padri Mechitaristi San Lazzaro degli Armeni, 822 (206), fol. 179v (13th cent.)
Venice, Biblioteca dei Padri Mechitaristi San Lazzaro degli Armeni, 1537 (1716)
Venice, Biblioteca dei Padri Mechitaristi San Lazzaro degli Armeni, 245 (260) (16th/17th cent.)
Jerusalem, Armenian Patriarchate (Monastery of Saint James), 898-a, fol. 15v (1619)
Vienna, Mechitarist Library, 2286, fol. 21v (13th/14th cent.)
Yerevan, Matenadaran, 993, no. 377, fol. 643v (1456)
Yerevan, Matenadaran, 1770, fols. 371v–372r, 348r (1589)
Yerevan, Matenadaran, 1887, fol. 255v (17th cent.)
Yerevan, Matenadaran, 1898, fol. 279r (13th cent.)
Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. arm. 3, fol. 50r
Esbroeck, Michel van. “Neuf listes d’apôtres orientales.” Aug 34 (1994): 109–99 (edition of Matenadaran, p. 185; with French translation, pp. 140–41).
Finck, Franz N. Zeitschrift für armenische Philologie 1 (1902): 217 (text of Yerevan 1898).
Tchérakian, Chérubin. Ankanon girkh arakhelakankh: Thankgaran haykakan hin ew nor deprutheankh. Venice: Òazar, 1904 (edition based on Venice 822 with readings from 1537 and 245, pp. 476–77).
3.2 Modern Translations
3.2.1 French
Leloir, Louis. Écrits apocryphes sur les apôtres. CCSA 3–4. 2 vols. Turnhout: Brepols, 1986–1992 (French translation of Tchérakian’s edition, pp. 768–73).
3.3 General Works