Saint
Tryphaena
A Christian woman of Rome, greeted by the Apostle Paul in his Epistle to the Romans.
- Era
- unknown
Life
Saint Tryphaena was a Christian woman of Rome, an outstanding fellow-worker of the Apostle Paul in the Church of Rome, and, in all likelihood, the sister of Saint Tryphosa. For their labors in the service of the Lord, the Apostle Paul sends them his greeting in the Epistle to the Romans: "Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord" (16:12).
The Greek synaxarion dedicates a service and hymnography to them, but the day of their commemoration is not known. Nothing else of their life is preserved in the sources at hand. They are honored as saints of the undivided Church.