Prochorus (Greek: Πρόχορος, Prochoros) was one of the Seven Deacons chosen to care for the poor of the Christian community in Jerusalem (Acts 6:5).

Tradition calls Prochorus the nephew of Saint Stephen the Protomartyr.

Prochorus accompanied Saint Peter, who ordained him to be the bishop in the city of Nicomedia.

[2] He is also thought to have been a companion of Saint John the Apostle, who consecrated him bishop of Nicomedia in Bithynia.

Some modern scholars dispute his having been the author of the apocryphal Acts of John,[3] which is dated by them to the end of the 2nd century.