The nineth day of the blessed month of Babah, of the year 146 A.D., Saint Eumenius the seventh Pope of the See of St. Mark, departed. Pope Apremius, the fifth Pope, ordained him a deacon and he served 10 years in this position. When St. Justus, the sixth Pope, was appointed, he saw how Emenius excelled in the knowledge and faith, so he ordained him a priest. He entrusted to him the teaching of the believers of the church of Alexandria, and asked him to look after them and to instruct them in the principles of the Orthodox faith.
When Pope Justus departed, this father was chosen Patriarch. He handed down the care of the churches and the teaching of the believers to Father Marcianus who later became his successor. He continually restored the strayed sinners, explaining to the pagans plainly the Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ and His being one in His divine essence. He stayed on the chair for 13 years and departed in peace.
