Aristarchus or Aristarch, "a Greek Macedonian

Macedonia (Roman province)

The Roman province of Macedonia was officially established in 146 BC, after the Roman general Quintus Caecilius Metellus defeated Andriscus of Macedon, the last Ancient King of Macedon in 148 BC, and after the four client republics established by Rome in the region were dissolved...

 of Thessalonica

Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki , historically also known as Thessalonica, Salonika or Salonica, is the second-largest city in Greece and the capital of the region of Central Macedonia as well as the capital of the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace...

" , was an early Christian

Early Christianity

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 mentioned in a few passages of the New Testament

New Testament

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. He accompanied Saint Paul

Paul of Tarsus

Paul the Apostle , also known as Saul of Tarsus, is described in the Christian New Testament as one of the most influential early Christian missionaries, with the writings ascribed to him by the church forming a considerable portion of the New Testament...

 on his third missionary journey. Along with Gaius, another Macedonian, Aristarchus was seized by the mob at Ephesus

Ephesus

Ephesus was an ancient Greek city, and later a major Roman city, on the west coast of Asia Minor, near present-day Selçuk, Izmir Province, Turkey. It was one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League during the Classical Greek era...

 and taken into the theater . Later, Aristarchus returned with Paul from Greece to Asia . At Caesarea

Caesarea Palaestina

Caesarea Maritima , Caesarea Palaestina from 133 CE onwards, was a city and harbor built by Herod the Great about 25–13 BC. Today, its ruins lie on the Mediterranean coast of Israel about halfway between the cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa, on the site of Pyrgos Stratonos . Caesarea Maritima was...

, he embarked with Paul on a ship of Edremit (Adramyttium) bound for Myra

Myra

Myra is an ancient town in Lycia, where the small town of Kale is situated today in present day Antalya Province of Turkey. It was located on the river Myros , in the fertile alluvial plain between Alaca Dağ, the Massikytos range and the Aegean Sea.- Historical evidence :Although some scholars...

 in Lycia

Lycia

Lycia Lycian: Trm̃mis; ) was a region in Anatolia in what are now the provinces of Antalya and Muğla on the southern coast of Turkey. It was a federation of ancient cities in the region and later a province of the Roman Empire...

 ; whether he traveled with him from there to Rome

Rome

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 is not recorded. Aristarchus is described as Paul's "fellow prisoner" and "fellow laborer" in and , respectively.

In Eastern Orthodox

Eastern Orthodox Church

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 and Eastern Catholic tradition, Aristarchus is identified as one of the Seventy Apostles

Seventy Disciples

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 and bishop of Apamea

Apamea (Syria)

Apamea was a treasure city and stud-depot of the Seleucid kings, was capital of Apamene, on the right bank of the Orontes River. . Its site is found about to the northwest of Hama, Syria, overlooking the Ghab valley...

. He is commemorated as a saint and martyr

Christian martyrs

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 on January 4

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, April 14

April 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Apr. 13 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Apr. 15All fixed commemorations below celebrated on Apr. 27 by Old Calendarists-Saints:*St Martin the Confessor the Pope of Rome*Martyrs Anthony, John, and Eustace of Vilna in Lithuania*Martyr Ardalion the Actor...

, and September 27

September 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Sep. 26 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Sep. 28All fixed commemorations below celebrated on Oct. 10 by Old Calendarists-Saints:*Martyr Callistratus of Carthage and 49 martyrs with him *Repose of Venerable Sabbatius, wonderworker of Solovki...

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Aristarchus son of Aristarchus, a politarch

Politarch

Politarch was a Hellenistic and Roman-era Macedonian title for an elected governor of a city . The term had been already attested in the concerning Thessalonica, as well in modern archaeology. The institution is called Politarchate and Ptoliarchos appears in a poetic epigram...

of Thessalonica (39/38 BC?)
may be the same person with Aristarchus.