CLAUDIA klô’ dĭ ə (Κλαυδία, G3086) a Christian woman mentioned in 2 Timothy 4:21.

Claudia, with Eubulus, Linus and Pudens, was a close friend of the Apostle Paul during his second Rom. imprisonment. She with the others sent greetings to Timothy. In the Apostolic Constitutions VII. 46 she is called the mother or wife of Linus (Λίνος ὁ Κλαυδίας), the first bishop of Rome.

Some have thought she was the wife of Pudens. She has been identified as Claudia Rufina, wife of Aulus Pudens, the friend of the poet Martial, and as Claudia Quinctilla, the wife of Claudius Pudens. They erected an inscr. to their infant son between Rome and Ostia (CIL VI. 15, 066).