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Lucius of Cyrene (Loukios o Kurenaios, Λούκιος ὁ Κυρηναῖος) was, according to the Book of Acts, one of the founders of the Christian Church in Antioch, then part of Roman Syria. He is mentioned by name as a member of the church there, after King Herod's Death:
In the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch) and Saul. —Acts 13:1, NIV
Lucius is indicated as a founder by an inference in an earlier passage:
Now those who had been scattered by the persecution that broke out when Stephen was killed traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus and Antioch, spreading the word only among Jews. Some of them, however, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began to speak to Greeks also, telling them the good news about the Lord Jesus. —Acts 11:19,20 NIV
He was supposed to have been the first bishop of Cyrene.[1]
There is also a Lucius mentioned in Romans 16:21. There is no way of knowing for sure whether this is the same person but Origen identifies the Lucius in Romans with the evangelist Luke (Comm. Rom. 10.39)
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