Apostle 1st century
Apostle Philemon of the Seventy
The recipient of Paul's Epistle to Philemon, in whose house the church at Colossae assembled; by tradition bishop of Gaza, martyred with his wife Apphia under Nero.
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The recipient of Paul's Epistle to Philemon, in whose house the church at Colossae assembled; by tradition bishop of Gaza, martyred with his wife Apphia under Nero.
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One of the Seventy Apostles; commemorated in the Synaxis of the Seventy Apostles (Jan 4).
Sources: Synaxarion; the traditional catalogue of the Seventy Apostles; New Testament