Foreign Rulers

Non-Israelite monarchs and dignitaries who interacted with the early Church and the people of God during the New Testament era.

2 profiles tagged Foreign Rulers.

King of the Nabataeans whose ethnarch attempted to capture the Apostle Paul in Damascus

Aretas IV Philopatris was the King of the Nabataeans (c. 9 BC – AD 40) whose ethnarch attempted to arrest the Apostle Paul in Damascus.

Queen of the Ethiopians whose royal treasurer was baptized by Philip the Evangelist

Candace was the title of the powerful queens of the Kingdom of Kush (Ethiopia) who ruled during the apostolic period of the first century AD.