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His name was Onesimus (pronounced "Oh-NEE-si-moose) which means 'useful'.

It is believed that Onesimus became bishop at Ephesus, Turkey, after Timothy, and was martyred, possibly by stoning, under the persecution by the Emperor Trajan.

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