Parrobus of Pottole
Bishop and one of the Seventy Disciples

Patrobas of Pottole, sometimes Patrobos, or Patrobus (Greek: Πατροβᾶς), is numbered among the seventy disciples. He was Bishop of Neapolis (Naples) or of Pottole (cf. recounting of Dorotheus below), and is referred to in Scripture when St Paul greets him in his Epistle to the Romans. The Church remembers St. Patrobas on November 5, with his fellow apostles Ss. Hermas, Linus, Gaius and Philologos.
See also
St. Nikolai Velimirovic, The Prologue from Ohrid
References
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External links
Apostle Patrobus of the Seventy (Orthodox Church in America)
The Choosing of the Seventy Holy Apostles, as recounted by Dorotheus, Bishop of Tyre from the site of the Russian Orthodox Church of St.
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