Nympha (Νύμφα) is the Greek word for "bride" or "nymph." In Colossians 4:15, Paul greets Nympha and "**the church that is in her house**" — making her a recognized leader of a Laodicean house church, one of the few named female leaders of the early apostolic communities.
Held in honored veneration in Eastern Orthodox tradition.
Nympha reduces to eight — the number of NT church leader.