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prok´oÌ„Ì-rus (Î ÏοÌχοÏος, ProÌchoros) : One of “the seven†chosen by the Christian community in Jerusalem to superintend the dispensing of charity to the widows and other poor (). The name is Greek, and he may have been a Hellenist. According to tradition he became bishop of Nicomedia and died a martyr at Antioch.