Carpus (Hastings' Dictionary)

An inhabitant of Troas, with whom St. Paul stayed, probably on his last journey to Rome (2 Ti 4"). The name is Greek, but we have no means of proving his nationality. His memory is honoured, as one of the seventy disciples, by the Greek Church on May 26, and by the Roman and Syrian Churches on October 13. A late tradition found in the list of the seventy disciples, attri- buted to Hippolytus, and in that by Dorotheus, describes him as having become bishop of Berytus or Beroea, in Thrace. (Acta Sanctorum, May 26, ( )ct. 13 ; Monologion, May 26 ; Nilles, Kalen- flarium Manuale, i. pp. 165, 461.) W. LOCK.