This church, according to Dr.Lardner and others, was most probably gathered by the Apostle Paul himself.

Mount Cadmus rose behind the city, with its almost perpendicular side, and a huge chasm in the mountain was the outlet of a torrent which flowed into the river Lycus, on which the city was built, standing not far from the junction of this river with the Moeander.
"One of the two men who bore these letters was a slave.

His name was Onesimus.

He robbed his master, Philemon, of Colosse, fled to Rome, heard Paul preach, was converted, and now by the Apostle is sent back to his master with a letter, in charge of Tychicus, who, with this Onesimus, was the bearer of a letter to the Colossian Church.
"Let us attend the church-meeting.

The pastor, Archippus, presides.
Epaphras is at Rome.
"What an interesting company do we behold as we sit near the pastor's table, in full view of the audience! The inhabitants of this place were noted for the worship of Bacchus, and Cybele, mother of the gods; hence her name, _Phrygia Mater_.