Who Was Alive
Saint Timothy
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Saint Timothy

Bishop

Born AD 17 · died AD 97, aged 79 or 80
Also known as Timothy, St Timothy

Who was alive at the same time as Saint Timothy?

  1. Strabo, c. 63 BC – c. AD 23
  2. Tiberius, 42 BC – AD 37
  3. Claudius, 10 BC – AD 54
  4. Galba, 3 BC – AD 69
  5. Saint Peter, BC – c. AD 66
  6. Paul the Apostle, c. AD 5 – c. AD 66
  7. Vespasian, AD 9 – AD 79
  8. Mark the Evangelist, c. AD 15 – AD 68
  9. Pope Linus, AD 10 – AD 79
  10. Caligula, AD 12 – AD 41
  11. Saint Timothy, AD 17 – AD 97
  12. Pliny the Elder, 20s – AD 79
  13. Pope Anacletus, c. AD 25 – 90s
  14. Josephus, AD 37 – c. AD 100
  15. Nero, AD 37 – AD 68
  16. Titus, AD 39 – AD 81
  17. Plutarch, c. AD 45 – c. AD 120
  18. Epictetus, c. AD 50 – c. AD 131
  19. Domitian, AD 51 – AD 96
  20. Tacitus, c. AD 55 – c. AD 120
  21. Trajan, AD 53 – c. AD 117
  22. Pliny the Younger, c. AD 61 – c. AD 113
  23. Hadrian, AD 76 – AD 138
  24. Antoninus Pius, AD 86 – AD 161

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When Saint Timothy was born, Saint Peter was 16 or 17, Caligula was 4 or 5, Tiberius was 57 or 58, Vespasian was 7 or 8 and Claudius was 25 or 26.

When Saint Timothy died, Trajan was 43 or 44, Hadrian was 20 or 21, Josephus was 59 or 60, Antoninus Pius was 10 or 11 and Nerva was 66 or 67.

Born during Saint Timothy’s lifetime: Plutarch, Tacitus, Nero, Pliny the Elder, Epictetus, Trajan, Hadrian and Titus.

Not quite contemporaries: Augustus died about 2 years before Saint Timothy was born, Saint Anne died about 2 years before Saint Timothy was born, Justin Martyr was born months after Saint Timothy died and Pausanias was born about 11 years after Saint Timothy died.

What happened in Saint Timothy’s lifetime

Where Saint Timothy’s contemporaries were born

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Birthplaces as a list

Compare Saint Timothy

The 76 best-known contemporaries

76 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Saint Timothy. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in AD 57.

  1. Paul the Apostle c. AD 5 – c. AD 66
  2. Plutarch c. AD 45 – c. AD 120
  3. Saint Peter BC – c. AD 66
  4. Tacitus c. AD 55 – c. AD 120
  5. Nero AD 37 – AD 68
  6. Caligula AD 12 – AD 41
  7. Pliny the Elder 20s – AD 79
  8. Tiberius 42 BC – AD 37
  9. Epictetus c. AD 50 – c. AD 131
  10. Strabo c. 63 BC – c. AD 23
  11. Trajan AD 53 – c. AD 117
  12. Vespasian AD 9 – AD 79
  13. Hadrian AD 76 – AD 138
  14. Claudius 10 BC – AD 54
  15. Titus AD 39 – AD 81
  16. Pliny the Younger c. AD 61 – c. AD 113
  17. Domitian AD 51 – AD 96
  18. Pope Linus AD 10 – AD 79
  19. Mark the Evangelist c. AD 15 – AD 68
  20. Josephus AD 37 – c. AD 100
  21. Antoninus Pius AD 86 – AD 161
  22. Galba 3 BC – AD 69
  23. Pope Anacletus c. AD 25 – 90s
  24. Martial c. AD 40 – AD 104
  25. Otho AD 32 – AD 69
  26. Petronius c. AD 27 – AD 66
  27. Pope Sixtus I c. AD 42 – 120s
  28. Vitellius AD 15 – AD 69
  29. Nerva AD 30 – AD 98
  30. Lucan AD 39 – AD 65
  31. Quintilian c. AD 35 – c. AD 96
  32. Hero of Alexandria c. AD 10 – c. AD 75
  33. Boudica c. AD 30 – c. AD 61
  34. Arminius c. 17 BC – c. AD 21
  35. Ignatius of Antioch c. AD 35 – c. AD 108
  36. Philo c. 15 BC – c. AD 50
  37. Saint Stephen c. AD 1 – c. AD 36
  38. Cai Lun c. AD 55 – AD 121
  39. Zhang Heng AD 78 – AD 139
  40. Arrian c. AD 91 – c. AD 176
  41. Statius AD 45 – AD 96
  42. Polycarp c. AD 69 – AD 155
  43. John the Evangelist AD 10 – AD 98
  44. Germanicus 15 BC – AD 19
  45. Agrippina the Younger AD 15 – AD 59
  46. Seneca the Elder c. 54 BC – c. AD 39
  47. Messalina AD 20 – AD 48
  48. Dioscorides c. AD 32 – c. AD 90
  49. Livia BC – AD 29
  50. Velleius Paterculus c. 19 BC – c. AD 31
  51. Apollonius of Tyana c. AD 15 – c. AD 100
  52. Persius AD 34 – AD 62
  53. Rabbi Akiva c. AD 50 – AD 135
  54. Kanishka AD 78 – AD 144
  55. Marcion of Sinope c. AD 90 – c. AD 160
  56. Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella AD 4 – AD 70
  57. Aśvaghoṣa AD 80 – AD 150
  58. Wang Mang c. 45 BC – AD 23
  59. Silius Italicus AD 26 – AD 101
  60. Herod Agrippa BC – AD 44
  61. Ban Zhao AD 45 – AD 116
  62. Juba II BC – AD 23
  63. Gnaeus Julius Agricola AD 40 – AD 93
  64. Agrippina the Elder BC – AD 33
  65. Frontinus c. AD 30 – AD 103
  66. Valerius Flaccus c. AD 45 – c. AD 95
  67. Saint Titus 10s – 100s
  68. Wang Chong AD 27 – AD 97
  69. Dio Chrysostom c. AD 40 – c. AD 120
  70. Sejanus 20 BC – AD 31
  71. Poppaea Sabina AD 30 – AD 65
  72. Florus c. AD 72 – c. AD 140
  73. Vologases I of Parthia AD 25 – c. AD 80
  74. Herod Agrippa II c. AD 27 – c. AD 100
  75. Claudia Octavia c. AD 40 – AD 62
  76. Nicomachus c. AD 60 – c. AD 120