st. titus was the first bishop of crete, and the letter to him from st. paul is an important document in understanding how very early the ministry of the church assumed the form it has today.
that letter is not very popular among many in the church today, however. i don't want to think it is the reason that the american episcopal church, for instance, downgraded titus from having a day of his own to merging him with timothy on 26 january. the letter is important enough (i mean, it is part of the new testament) but challenging enough to the way we often do things today, to be worth a read.
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