Silvanus of the Seventy
writer, also mentioned in the New Testament, may have been the same person as Silas
b. 1st century
Silvanus is a traditional figure in Eastern Orthodox tradition assumed to be one of the Seventy Apostles, those followers of Jesus sent out by him in Luke 10. Peter makes mention of him in his first epistle.
Commemorated
Places
- Thessalonica death
How we know
Carried by the tradition of the church.
Also recorded as
- Silas traditionally identified with