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Tryphena and Tryphosa

two Roman saints mentioned by Paul in the New Testament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ65246068 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tryphena and Tryphosa are Christian women briefly mentioned by name in the Bible in Romans 16:12, in which St.

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“Tryphena and Tryphosa” enters the record as two Roman saints mentioned by Paul in the New Testament. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tryphena, Tryphosa and Roman can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 19-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Tryphena, Tryphosa and Roman.
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“Tryphena and Tryphosa” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Tryphena, Tryphosa and Roman provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 13, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q65246068. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tryphena and Tryphosa” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.