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Seventy Apostles

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|<center>XIX.</center>||[[Apostle Onesimus|Onesimus]]||<center>Bishop of Byzantium</center>||[[February 15]]||Col 4:9; Philm. 1:10-16;||The holy Onesimus, mentioned by Paul in his epistle to Philemon, was tortured by Tertillus, Prefect of Rome, and died in Puteoli.||[[Image:St.Onesimus.jpg|75px]]
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|<center>XX.</center>||[[w:Epaphras|Epaphras]]||<center>Bishop of Colossae</center>||<center>-</center>||Col. 1:7, 4:12-13; Philm. 1:23;||Epaphras was Bishop of Colossae and also of the churches of Laodicea and [[Hierapolis(Turkey)|Hierapolis]]. He shared Paul's captivity in Rome, whence the great Apostle wrote the Colossians, ''Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. For I bear him record, that he hath a great zeal of you, and them that are in Laodicea, and them in Hierapolis''.||<center>-</center>
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|<center>XXI.</center>||[[Apostle Archippus|Archippus]]||<center>Bishop of Colossae</center>||[[February 19]];<br>[[November 22]]||Col 4:17; Philm. 1:2;||Archippus, like Onesimus and Epaphras, is mentioned in the Epistle to Philemon. While Saint Epaphras was being held at Rome in fetters, Archippus succeeded him as Bishop of Colossae. Archippus was tending the flock of Christ in that city when Saint Paul wrote him this reminder: ''Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it.''||<center>-</center>
|<center>LIX.</center>||[[Apostle Carpus|Carpus]]||<center>Bishop of [[w:Veria|Beroea]]</center>||[[May 26]]||2 Tim. 4:13;||In his Second Epistle to Timothy, Saint Paul requests, ''The phelonion that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books.'' Carpus was Bishop of Berroia in Macedonia.||<center>-</center>
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|<center>LX.</center>||[[Apostle Quadratus|Quadratus]]||<center>Bishop of Athens</center>||[[September 21]]||<center>-</center>||Quadratus preached the word of the Lord in Athens and Magnesia, and was bishop of both cities. The Athenians put him to death during the reign of Hadrian.||<center>-</center>[[File:Apostol Kodrat from Afinen.jpg|75px]]
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|<center>LXI.</center>||[[Mark]]<br><br><small>(commonly considered identical to [[Apostle Mark|Mark the Evangelist]])</small>||<center>Bishop of [[w:Byblos|Byblos]]</center>||[[September 27]]||Acts 12:25;<br>Acts 15:37-41;||This Apostle, whose shadow healed the sick, was Bishop of Byblos in Phoenicia.||<center>-</center>
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