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Timothy’s life
Timothy was born in Listra (about 200 km north-west of Tarsus) to a Jewish mother and a pagan father.
When Paul passed through those lands at the beginning of his second missionary journey, he chose Timothy as a companion because “he was highly esteemed by the brethren of Lystra and Iconium, (Acts 16: 2)” but he circumcised him “for the Jews that were in those regions.
(Acts 16:3)” With the Apostle of the Gentiles, Timothy passed through Asia Minor and reached Macedonia.
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He then accompanied Paul to Athens and from there he was sent to Thessalonica. Then, he continued to Corinth and collaborated in the evangelization of the city on the isthmus. The figure of Timothy stands out like that of a great shepherd.
According to the later Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius, Timothy was the first Bishop of Ephesus. Some of his relics came from Constantinople i