The legendary history of Philemon supplies nothing on which we can rely. _The Apostolic Constitutions_ (vii. 46) relate that Philemon became Bishop of Colosse, and died a martyr under Nero, but this is not sustained by any other early testimony, and is expressly denied by the author of the _Commentary on St. Paul's Epistles_, attributed to Hillary. This tradition, therefore, which Dr. Meyer (p. 59) mentions, apparently without hesitation, cannot, I think, be accepted. I.--BISHOPS OF GAZA _c_. A.D. 285. SYLVANUS. The first Christian martyr of Gaza whose name is known. Having had his eyes put out, he was beheaded at the Copper Mines of Phæno. Commemorated May 4. A.D. 325. Gaza was represented by a Bishop at the Council of Nicæa. He is described as a Bishop "of _the Churches round Gaza_." A.D. 341. ASCLEPAS.[21] His name occurs in the Minutes of the First Œcumenical Council. He succeeded Sylvanus, but was deposed at a Council of Antioch, and reinstated at a Council of Sardica. He suffered many persecutions for the "Orthodox" faith. A.D. 341. QUINTIANUS, an Arian usurper of the See of Asclepas. A.D. 363. IRENÆUS (A.D. 363-393) was present at the Council of Antioch A.D. 363. He built the Church of St. Irene in Gaza. The first church built in Gaza itself was the work of St. Irenæus, who died _c._ A.D. 393, and whose feast is December 16. A.D. 393. AENEIAS succeeded Irenæus. His episcopate lasted for a very short period. A.D. 395. PORPHYRIUS, the true restorer of Christianity in Gaza. His life was written by his trusty deacon, Marcus. The text was published at Leipsig in 1895. Porphyrius was born in Thessalonica, _c_. A.D. 347, of a good family. After a Presbyterate of three years, in A.D. 395 he was unwillingly consecrated Bishop of Gaza by John of Cæsarea.