Herodion

Herodion is one of the believers at Rome whom Paul greets by name in the closing salutations of his letter. The notice singles him out by a personal designation: Paul calls him a kinsman.

Paul's Kinsman at Rome

The single mention falls in the long roll of greetings near the end of the epistle: "Greet Herodion my kinsman. Greet those of the [household] of Narcissus, who are in the Lord" (Rom 16:11). The greeting is given on its own line and paired with the next address, a separate greeting to those of the household of Narcissus. The designation "my kinsman" places Herodion in the smaller subset of named figures Paul identifies by family or ethnic kinship — the same tie applied earlier to Andronicus and Junias (Rom 16:7) and later to Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater (Rom 16:21). Beyond the greeting itself, no further detail about Herodion is given.