Righteous · Old Testament
Righteous Forefather Enoch
Also known as Enoch the Patriarch · Enoch son of Jared
A patriarch who walked with God and was taken up alive, not seeing death.
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Notes
Among the Holy Forefathers, commemorated on the Sunday before the Nativity of Christ. Later apocryphal works (1 Enoch) bear his name but are not part of the Orthodox canon.
Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints