Timothy 30963 225515147 2008-07-14T02:31:49Z 205.200.63.85 {{Infobox Saint |name=Saint Timothy |birth_date=c 17 |death_date=c 80 |feast_day= '''[[Eastern Christianity]]''': [[22 January]]<br> '''West''': [[26 January]] ([[Roman Catholicism]], [[Lutheranism]]), [[24 January]] ([[General Roman Calendar of 1962]]) |venerated_in=[[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholicism]], [[Eastern Catholic Churches]], [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Eastern Orthodoxy]], [[Oriental Orthodoxy]], [[Anglicanism]], and [[Lutheranism]] |image=Timothy.jpg |imagesize=200px |caption= |birth_place= |death_place=[[Ephesus]] |titles= |beatified_date= |beatified_place= |beatified_by= |canonized_date= |canonized_place= |canonized_by= |attributes= |patronage= |major_shrine= |suppressed_date= |issues= }} :''For other uses of "Timothy," see [[Timothy (disambiguation)]].'' '''Saint Timothy ''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: {{polytonic|Τιμόθεος}}; ''Timótheos'' meaning "honoring [[God]]") was a [[1st century|first-century]] [[Christianity|Christian]] [[bishop]] who died about AD [[80]]. Evidence from the [[New Testament]] also has him functioning as an apostolic delegate or [[coadjutor]]. Saint Timotheos is venerated as a saint and [[martyr]] by the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]] and in addition as an [[Seventy Disciples|apostle]] by the [[Greek Orthodox Church]], with his feast day on [[January 22]]. In the [[Roman Catholic calendar of saints]], St. Timothy Westfall is venerated together with [[Titus (Biblical)|St. Titus]] on [[January 26]], the date on which he is commemorated, along with Titus and [[Silas|St. Silas]], by the [[Evangelical Lutheran Church in America]]. Timothy's feast is kept by the [[Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod]] and [[Traditionalist Catholic|Traditionalist Roman Catholics]] on [[January 24]], its date in the [[General Roman Calendar as in 1954]]. Timothy is first mentioned in the Bible at the time of St. Paul's second visit to [[Lystra]] ([[Acts of the Apostles|Acts]] 16:1-2), where Timothy is mentioned as a "disciple" or "follower." St. Paul, having been impressed by his "own son in the faith," arranged that he should become his companion (Acts 16:3), and personally [[History of male circumcision#Male Circumcision in the Greco-Roman World|circumcised]] him because his mother was of the Jewish faith, so that he might be accepted by the Jews. He was ordained (1 Timothy 4:14) and went with Paul in his journey through [[Phrygia]], [[Galatia]] and [[Mysia]]; also to [[Troas]], [[Philippi]], [[Veria|Berea]] (Acts 17) and [[Corinth]] (Acts 18:5). His mother, Eunice, and his grandmother, Lois, are noted as eminent for their piety and faith, which indicates that they may have also been Christians<ref>2nd Timothy 1:5</ref>. Timothy is praised by Paul for his knowledge of the Scriptures, and is said to have been acquainted with the Scriptures since childhood<ref>2nd Timothy 3:15</ref>. The Bible gives little information about Timothy's father; however, it does indicate that he was a [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] ([[Acts of the Apostles|Acts]] 16:1). According to later tradition, St. Paul ordained St. Timothy as Bishop of [[Ephesus]] in the year [[65]], where he served for 15 years. In the year [[80]] (though some sources place the event during the year [[97]], with Timothy dying at age 80), Timothy tried to halt a pagan procession of [[Idolatry in Christianity|idols]], ceremonies and songs. In response to his preaching of the [[Gospel]], the angry pagans beat him, dragged him through the streets and stoned him to death. In the [[4th century]], his relics were transferred to the [[Church of the Holy Apostles]] in [[Constantinople]]. ==Notes== <references/> ==External links== * [http://www.orthodoxwiki.org/Apostle_Timothy Apostle Timothy at Orthodoxwiki] {{New Testament people}} [[Category:1st century births]] [[Category:80 deaths]] [[Category:New Testament people]] [[Category:People in Messianic Judaism]] [[Category:Saints from Anatolia]] [[Category:Eastern Orthodox saints]] [[Category:Pauline churches]] [[Category:1st century bishops]] [[Category:Jewish Christians]] [[ar:تيموثاوس]] [[ca:Timoteu]] [[cs:Svatý Timoteus]] [[de:Timotheus (Bischof)]] [[el:Τιμόθεος]] [[es:Timoteo]] [[fr:Timothée (chrétien)]] [[hak:Thì-mô-thai]] [[ko:디모테오]] [[it:San Timoteo]] [[nl:Timoteüs]] [[ja:テモテ]] [[no:Timoteus]] [[pl:Tymoteusz z Efezu]] [[pt:Timóteo de Éfeso]] [[ro:Timotei]] [[ru:Тимофей Эфесский]] [[sr:Тимотеј Ефешки]] [[uk:Святий Тимофій]] [[zh:提摩太]]