Julia

Julia is named once, in the closing chapter of Romans, among the believers in Rome whom Paul greets by name.

A Saint at Rome

Paul's greetings in Romans 16 move through pairs and small clusters of believers, often grouping people who shared a household or a meeting place. Julia appears in such a cluster: "Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them" (Rom 16:15). She is paired with Philologus — frequently read as her husband or close associate — and stands within a group that also includes Nereus, his unnamed sister, and Olympas, together with the wider assembly of saints meeting alongside them. The greeting tells the reader nothing further about her background, but it locates her firmly within the early Roman church as someone known by name to Paul.