Onesimus
saint and bishop
b. 1st century · d. 68
3rd Archbishop of Constantinople (Ecumenical Patriarch) · 2nd Metropolitan of Ephesus
Offices
Onesimus was a Christian mentioned in the New Testament. He was a slave to Philemon, a Christian, and is the subject of Paul's Epistle to Philemon.
Related people
- Saint Timothy succeeded · inferred
- Stachys the Apostle succeeded · inferred
- Polycarpus I of Byzantium preceded · inferred
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How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Letter to the Colossians 1 claim — Tychicus and Onesimus carry the letter to Colossae
- Letter to Philemon 1 claim — Onesimus is sent back to Philemon
- Oriens Christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus 2 claims — Oriens Christianus I, col. 195 sqq. — Patriarchae Constantinopolitani; Oriens Christianus I, col. 671 sqq. — Provincia Asia, Ecclesia Ephesi metropolis
Also recorded as
- Onesimus possibly same