Acts xx. 4. Tit. iii. 12.TYCHICUS, a Disciple of St. Paul, whom the Apostle often made use of, to carry his Letters to the several Churches. He was of the Province of Asia, and accompanied St. Paul, when in the Year 58 he made his Journey from Corinth to Jerusalem. ‘Twas he that carried the Epistle to the Colossians, written in 61; and that to the Ephesians, written in 65; and the First to Timothy, written in 64. St. Paul did not send him merely to carry his Letters, but also to learn the State of the Churches, and to bring him an Account of them. Wherefore he calls him his dear Brother, a faithful Minister of the Lord, and his Companion in the Service of God.1 He had Thoughts also of sending him into Crete, to preside over that Church in the absence of Titus. ‘Tis thought also,2 that he was deputed to Ephesus, to govern this Church while Timothy should be at Rome, when he carried a Letter to the Ephesians from this Apostle. The Greeks celebrate the Feast of St. Tychicus on the 8th or 9th of December, and give him the Title of one of the Seventy Disciples, and Bishop of Colophon in the Province of Asia. Usuard, Adod, and the other Martyrologists, mark his Feast at Paphos in Cyprus, on the 19th of April. Usuard only gives him the Title of Deacon.
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