What is "sopater"

Sopater (so'-pa-ter, sop'-a-ter (gr Σωπατρoς; Sopatros, "saviour of his father", Easton's reads "The father who saves", Holman's reads “sound parentage”) was the son of Pyrhus, a man from the city of Berea, mentioned in . Sopater and others ( Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia) accompanied Paul out of Macedonia after a group of Jews began to plot against Paul, and then sailed from Philippi to Alexandria Troas where they met Paul who had gone by land.

It is commonly accepted that Sopater was the kinsman of Paul noted in . as Sosipater. although some writers think the words "the son of Pyrrhus" were added to distinguish Sopater from Sosipater.

Sosipater is honored as Saint Sosipater by the Eastern Orthodox Church with a feast day on 29 April.

Sopater may refer to:

• Sopater, New Testament figure, the son of Pyrhus
• Sopater (poet), author of at least 12 books of Eclogues, see Callixenus of Rhodes
• Sopater of Apamea, 4th century sophist