at once to rejoin Paul at Rome, as the apostle desired him (2 Timothy 4:9, 2 Timothy 4:21). Later traditions The Catholic Encyclopedia notes that different traditions make Tychicus out to be the Bishop of Colophon, Chalcedon or Neapolis in Cyprus. His feast in the Roman calendar of saints is kept on 29 April. A pseudepigraphal list of the seventy disciples traditionally ascribed to Hippolytus of Rome includes both "Tychicus, bishop of Chalcedon" and "Tychicus, bishop of Colophonia" separately. The Catholic Encyclopedia describes this list as "worthless"; in Eastern Orthodoxy, the duplication is regarded as erroneous and referring to one and the same person, whose feast is on December 8 along with fellow disciples Sosthenes, Apollos, Cephas, Epaphroditus, Caesar, and Onesiphorus. References Seventy disciples People in Acts of the Apostles People in the Pauline epistles Saints from Roman Anatolia