Ti´tuhs
A gentile “partner and co-worker” with Paul (2Cor 8:23); the named addressee of a short letter in the NT. Titus is not mentioned in Acts, but from Galatians we learn that he was a gentile Christian, possibly from Antioch, who had been brought to Jerusalem by Paul and Barnabas as a sort of test case for the church in deciding whether gentile converts to Christianity needed to be circumcised (Gal 2:1-3). The extent of his involvement with Paul’s subsequent missionary work is unknown, but in the mid-50s Paul sent him from Ephesus to Corinth, carrying a painful letter that Paul had written to that church. He was successful in mediating a reconciliation between Paul and the congregation, and he brought Paul news of this in Macedonia (2Cor 2:4; 2Cor 2:13; 2Cor 7:6-8; 2Cor 13-15:6). Later, Titus returned to the Corinthian church as one of the agents responsible for administering the offering Paul was collecting for Jerusalem (2Cor 8:6; 2Cor 8:16-18, 2Cor 8:23, 2Cor 9:5; 2Cor 12:18). There are also references in the Pastoral Letters to Titus conducting ministry in Dalmatia (2Tim 4:10) and in Crete (Titus 1:5).
