The Apostolic Age · AD 4–70

Nympha of Laodicea

fl. c. 62 (death unrecorded) · Householder of a house church · Laodicea

The Apostolic Age

Who Nympha of Laodicea was

“Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church which is in his house” — or, in the better-attested reading, her house: the manuscripts divide between Nympha with “her” and Nymphas with “his,” and the feminine is the harder reading a copyist would most plausibly have altered. Either way, a householder whose home was the Laodicean church’s address a generation before that church received the Apocalypse’s sternest letter.

Verified single attestation

Colossians 4:15 only.

Common questions

When was Nympha active?

Nympha of Laodicea is dated fl. c. 62 (death unrecorded) in the archive, which places Nympha in the Apostolic Age (AD 4–70). The dating is traditional and approximate; the archive marks it as uncertain rather than fixing a year the sources do not give.

Which early sources mention Nympha?

Nympha of Laodicea is named in 1 primary-source passage catalogued here, drawn from Paul. Every passage is quoted from a named public-domain translation, earliest first.

Where was Nympha from?

The archive associates Nympha of Laodicea with Laodicea.

Who were Nympha’s contemporaries?

The archive links Nympha of Laodicea to 2 other figures, including Epaphras and Archippus. Each connection is drawn from a source that places them together, not from inference.

Scripture record

Primary-source mentions (1)

Every passage below is quoted from a named public-domain translation, earliest first.

Colossians 4:15

c. AD 55
Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church which is in his house.
Paul · read ↗

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