Manahen

There was a Saint Manahen (also Manaen) who was a teacher of the Church of Antioch and the foster brother of Herod Antipas and a life long friend. This connection with the royal family may have made him one of the "eyewitnesses and ministers of the word" (Luke 1:2), who delivered details in regard to Antipas and other members of the Herodian family (Luke 3:1, 19, 20; 8:3; 9:7-9; 13:31, 32; 23:8-12; Acts 12). He was probably a follower of John the Baptist and as a disciple of Jesus with "Joanna, the wife of Chusa, Herod's steward" he was a man of position. He is said to be one those who, under the influence of the Holy Spirit and part of Jesus' Sanhedrin.

It is believed that he was the one who laid hands upon Saul and Barnabas and sent the two apostles on the first of Paul's missionary journeys (Acts 13:1

In A.D. 39, Antipas left for Rome to gain the favor of Caligula, but instead received an order of perpetual exile. (Jos., "Ant.", XVIII, vii, 2).