Hermes of Philippopolis was an early Christian priest and one of the Seventy Disciples. He served as a bishop in Philippopolis, a city in Thrace located in present-day Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Mentioned by the Apostle Paul in the Epistle to the Romans, he is distinguished from the author of the text *The Shepherd of Hermas*, who belonged to a later generation of Christians. According to tradition, he experienced a period of poverty following his own sins and those of his children, leading to a spiritual transformation.