Polycarp
Year 85 AD (~55 years after Jesus’s ascension) bishop of the church in Smyrna (John wrote the gospel of John and John 1-3 in Ephesus the same year.
direct successors of the Apostles
Year 85 AD (~55 years after Jesus’s ascension) bishop of the church in Smyrna (John wrote the gospel of John and John 1-3 in Ephesus the same year.
direct successors of the Apostles