Apostle 1st century
Apostle Linus of the Seventy
Named by Paul (2 Tim 4:21) and reckoned the first bishop of Rome after the apostles Peter and Paul; he ended his life as a martyr.
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Named by Paul (2 Tim 4:21) and reckoned the first bishop of Rome after the apostles Peter and Paul; he ended his life as a martyr.
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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