Romans 16:1 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

I commend unto you Phebe — The bearer of this letter. A servant — The Greek word is a deaconness. Of the church in Cenchrea — In the apostolic age, some grave and pious women were appointed deaconnesses in every church. It was their office, not to teach publicly, but to visit the sick, the women in particular, and to minister to them both in their temporal and spiritual necessities.