The holy, glorious, all-laudable Apostle Apelles is numbered among the Seventy Apostles. Along with the Apostles Urban, Stachys, Narcissus, Amplias and Aristobulus he assisted the Apostle Andrew of Twelve Great Apostles. St. Apelles was bishop of Heraclea in Trachis. His feast day is October 31.
Source
- St. Nikolai Velimirovic, The Prologue of Ohrid