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Apostle Rufus of the Seventy

Greeted by Paul as 'chosen in the Lord' (Rom 16:13), by tradition a son of Simon of Cyrene; he became bishop of Thebes in Greece.

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Greeted by Paul as 'chosen in the Lord' (Rom 16:13), by tradition a son of Simon of Cyrene; he became bishop of Thebes in Greece.

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Photius the Great Patriarch of Constantinople
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One of the Seventy Apostles; commemorated in the Synaxis of the Seventy Apostles (Jan 4). Distinct from the Martyr Rufus of Thessaloniki.

Sources: Synaxarion; the traditional catalogue of the Seventy Apostles; New Testament