Saint Timothy
1st century Christian evangelist, philosopher and bishop
b. 17 · d. 97
1st Metropolitan of Ephesus
Offices
Timothy was an early Christian evangelist and the first Bishop of Ephesus, whom the Acts of Timothy relates died around AD 97.
Related people
- Eunice child of
- Paul the Apostle disciple of · traditional
- Lois relative of · traditional
- Pudentiana sibling of · traditional
- Onesimus preceded · inferred
Events
Commemorated
Places
- Lystra birth
- Church of the Holy Apostles burial
- Ephesus death
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Acts of the Apostles 4 claims — Paul's Second Missionary Journey; Timothy joins Paul at Lystra; Timothy and Erastus sent into Macedonia
- Ecclesiastical History 1 claim — Timothy is left in charge at Ephesus
- Oriens Christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus 1 claim — Oriens Christianus I, col. 671 sqq. — Provincia Asia, Ecclesia Ephesi metropolis
- OrthodoxWiki 1 claim — The Martyrdom of Timothy
Also recorded as
- Saint Timothy of Reims possibly same
Documents
- First Epistle to Timothy recipient
- Second Epistle to Timothy recipient