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Silas Silas or Silvanus (; Greek: Σίλας/Σιλουανός; fl. 1st century AD) was a leading member of the Early Christian community, who according to the New Testament accompanied Paul the Apostle on his second missionary journey. Name and et ...

(Silvanus), disciple, mentioned in four New Testament epistles *

Silvanus (monk) Abba Silvanus (d. before 414) was a Palestinian Christian monk who lived during the 4th and 5th centuries. He was one of the Desert Fathers. Biography Silvanus was born in Palestine. He led a community of 12 disciples in Scetis, Egypt, one of whom ...

, one of the

Desert Fathers The Desert Fathers or Desert Monks were early Christian hermits and ascetics, who lived primarily in the Scetes desert of the Roman province of Egypt , conventional_long_name = Roman Egypt , common_name = Egypt , subdivision = Province , na ...

Silvanus of the Seventy 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. According to Orthodox tradition he later became Bishop of Thessalonika and died a martyr ...

, a traditional figure in

Eastern Orthodox Eastern Orthodoxy, also known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity, is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholicism and Protestantism. Like the Pentarchy of the first millennium, the mainstream (or "canonical") ...

tradition assumed to be one of the

Seventy Apostles The seventy disciples or seventy-two disciples, known in the Eastern Christian traditions as the seventy apostles or seventy-two apostles, were early emissaries of Jesus mentioned in the Gospel of Luke. The correct Greek terminology is evdomikont ...

Silvanus (mythology) Silvanus (; meaning "of the woods" in Latin) was a Roman tutelary deity of woods and uncultivated lands. As protector of the forest (''sylvestris deus''), he especially presided over plantations and delighted in trees growing wild.Tibullus II.5.2 ...

, a Roman tutelary deity or spirit of woods and fields *

Silvanus (name) Silvanus is a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include: * Marcus Plautius Silvanus (1st-century BC–1st-century AD), Roman consul in 2 BC *Tiberius Plautius Silvanus Aelianus, a Roman patrician serving twice as consul (45 AD, 7 ...

, a surname and given name (and list of people with the name) * Silvanus (''Forgotten Realms''), a fictional deity in the ''Forgotten Realms'' setting of ''Dungeons & Dragons'' *

Sylvanus, Michigan Allen is a village in Hillsdale County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 201 at the 2020 census. The village is within Allen Township at the junction of U.S. Route 12 and M-49. With a total land area of only , Allen is the fo ...

, a village * ''Silvanus'' (genus), a genus of beetles

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