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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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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