<P> Not mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles, Saint Titus was noted in Galatians (cf . Gal. 2: 1, 3) where Paul wrote of journeying to Jerusalem with Barnabas, accompanied by Titus . He was then dispatched to Corinth, Greece, where he successfully reconciled the Christian community there with Paul, its founder . Titus was later left on the island of Crete to help organize the Church, and later met back with the Apostle Paul in the Nicopolis . He soon went to Dalmatia (now Croatia). According to Eusebius of Caesarea in the Ecclesiastical History, he served as the first bishop of Crete and remained there in his old years . He was buried in Cortyna (Gortyna), Crete; his head was later removed to Venice during the invasion of Crete by the Saracens in 832 and was enshrined in St Mark's Basilica, Venice, Italy . </P> <P> Scholars are not unanimous about the authenticity of the pastoral epistles, but it is considered pseudepigraphic by about 80% of scholars . Titus is usually one of the three Pastoral epistles attributed to Paul . Titus has a very close affinity with 1 Timothy, sharing similar phrases and expressions and similar subject matter . </P> <P> The author of Titus identifies himself as "Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ ." According to Easton's Bible Dictionary (1893), The Epistle was probably written about the same time as the First Epistle to Timothy, with which it has many affinities ." </P> <P> Scholars who believe Paul wrote Titus date its composition from the circumstance that it was written after Paul's visit to Crete (Titus 1: 5). That visit could not be the one referred to in the Acts of the Apostles 27: 7, when Paul was on his voyage to Rome as a prisoner, and where he continued a prisoner for two years . Thus traditional exegesis supposes that after his release Paul sailed from Rome into Asia, passing Crete by the way, and that there he left Titus "to set in order the things that were wanting ." Thence he would have gone to Ephesus, where he left Timothy, and from Ephesus to Macedonia, where he wrote the First Epistle to Timothy, and thence, according to the subscription of this epistle, to "Nicopolis of Macedonia", from which place he wrote to Titus, about 66 or 67 . </P>

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