Patrobulus, Hermas, Linus, Caius, Philologus of 70 disciples (Menologion of Basil II)

Gaius of Ephesus (also Gaios) is numbered among the

Seventy Disciples 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 ...

. He was

Bishop of Ephesus The Metropolis of Ephesus ( el, Μητρόπολις Εφέσου) was an ecclesiastical territory (metropolis) of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in western Asia Minor, modern Turkey. Christianity was introduced already in the city o ...

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16:23). The Catholic Church remembers St. Gaius on January 4 among the Seventy, and on November 5.

Possible reference in scripture

It has been suggested that this is the Gaius to whom the general epistle

3 John The Third Epistle of John is the third-to-last book of the New Testament and the Christian Bible as a whole, and attributed to John the Evangelist, traditionally thought to be the author of the Gospel of John and the other two epistles of John. ...

was addressed.

Sources

St.

Nikolai Velimirovic Nikolai or Nikolay is an East Slavic variant of the masculine name Nicholas. It may refer to: People Royalty * Nicholas I of Russia (1796–1855), or Nikolay I, Emperor of Russia from 1825 until 1855 * Nicholas II of Russia (1868–1918), or Niko ...

, ''The

Prologue from Ohrid The ''Prologue from Ohrid'' was compiled by Saint Nikolai Velimirovic. Bishop Nikolai's work is a compilation of lives of saints, hymn A hymn is a type of song, and partially synonymous with devotional song, specifically written for the purpos ...

External links

Apostle Gaius of the Seventy
January 4 (

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Apostle Gaius of the Seventy
November 5 (OCA)

References

* Seventy disciples Christian saints from the New Testament 1st-century bishops in Roman Anatolia Saints from Roman Anatolia Bishops of Ephesus {{saint-stub