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First named in Scripture at Romans 16:1 — read the chapter.

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

a “deaconess of the church at Cenchrea,” the port of Corinth. She was probably the bearer of Paul’s epistle to the Romans. Paul commended her to the Christians at Rome; “for she hath been,” says he, “a succourer of many, and of myself also” (Romans 16:1, 2).

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