Martyrs Jeremiah and Archilias

Jeremiah and Archilias are early Christian martyrs commemorated together in the Orthodox calendar on April 6. According to the surviving notices, they suffered martyrdom in the third century, and are associated with a Roman context. Archilias was a presbyter and is accordingly venerated as a hieromartyr, while Jeremiah is remembered as a martyr.

Almost nothing of their lives has been preserved. The synaxarion records that they were mentioned by Saint Gregory the Dialogist (Gregory the Great), but no surviving account gives the place or manner of their martyrdom or any further biographical detail. They remain among the many early witnesses known to the Church chiefly by name, rank, and commemoration.