- Orthodox Remembrance Day: January 4 and January 22
- Name means: the god honoring (Greek)
- Collaborator of the Apostle Paul, first Bishop of Ephesus
- Attributes: club, stones
- Patron: against abdominal pain and stomach ailments
- Born in Lystra, today the village of Kilistra (Gökyurt) near Konya, Turkey
- Died 97 in Ephesus, today ruins near Selçuk, Turkey
Timothy was born to a pagan father and a Jewish mother named Eunice. The fact that the mother had entered into a mixed marriage and that she had not had her son circumcised suggests that Timothy grew up in a not very believing family, although it is said that he knew the scriptures from childhood (2 Timothy 3:15). When Paul came at the beginning of the second missionary journey through Lystra – today’s village of Kilistra (Gökyurt) near Konya – he chose Timothy as his companion because he had a good testimony of the brothers in Lystra and Ikonium; he was then circumcised by Paul to avoid conflict with Jews (Acts 16:2–3).
Timothy was highly esteemed by Paul. I have no like-minded person who will take care of your affairs in such a genuine way, he writes to the Philippians (2:20).
