Onesiphorus
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Onesiphorus was a Christian referred to in the New Testament letter of Second Timothy. According to the letter sent by St. Paul, Onesiphorus sought out Paul who was imprisoned at the time in Rome.
Onesiphorus, from the Menologion of Basil II.
Parium
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Parium was a Greek city of Adrasteia in Mysia on the Hellespont. Its bishopric was a suffragan of Cyzicus, the metropolitan see of the Roman province of Hellespontus.
Onesiphorus
…was bishop at Colophon (Asia Minor), and later at Corinth. Both the Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches hold that he died a martyr in the city of Parium on the shores of the Hellespont. The persecution of Christians during Nero’s reign made Rome a dangerous city for Christians. Paul praises Onesiphorus…
Death of Theogenes, bishop of Parium