Dictionaries :: Prochorus

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Prochorus:

he that presides over the choirs

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Prochorus:

prok'-o-rus (Prochoros) :One of "the seven" chosen by the Christian community in Jerusalem to superintend the dispensing of charity to the widows and other poor (Ac 6:5). The name is Greek, and he may have been a Hellenist. According to tradition he became bishop of Nicomedia and died a martyr at Antioch.

Nave's Topical Bible

Prochorus: An Early Christian Deacon

Act 6:5

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Prochorus:

(leader of the chorus) one of the seven deacons, being the third of the list, and named next after Stephen and Philip (Acts 6:5).