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Patrobas

PATROBAS, a Disciple of the Apostles Rom. xvi. 14, 15.mentioned by St. Paul in his Epistle to the Romans; he was at Rome in the 58th Year of Christ. None of the Particulars of his Life are come to our Knowledge. The Greeks place his Death on the fourth or fifth of November, and make him Bishop of Pozzolo in Campania, or in the Kingdom of Naples. The Roman Martyrology puts it on the fourth of November. Origen thinkse, that Patrobas lived with Asyncritus, whom St. Paul salutes in the same Verse.

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