Tychicus

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Tychicus
     chance, an Asiatic Christian, a "faithful minister in the Lord"
     (Eph. 6:21, 22), who, with Trophimus, accompanied Paul on a part
     of his journey from Macedonia to Jerusalem (Acts 20:4). He is
     alluded to also in Col. 4:7, Titus 3:12, and 2 Tim. 4:12 as
     having been with Paul at Rome, whence he sent him to Ephesus,


     probably for the purpose of building up and encouraging the
     church there.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Tychicus, casual; by chance