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Candace, the queen of the Ethiopians (Acts 8:27), mentioned because Philip baptized her treasury minister, an Ethiopian eunuch. Her name is actually a title, presumably ‘queen,’ or ‘queen mother,’ so she cannot be identified with any of the otherwise known queens of the Nubian realm of Meroe, along the upper Nile (modern Sudan).

Acts 8:27 - The Candace, queen of the Ethiopians. Older English translations, most notably the KJV, treated the Greek kandake as the name of the Ethiopian queen, calling her Candace. Newer translations, including the NRSV, recognize that Kandake is an Ethiopian title meaning either "queen" or "queen mother," and known to have been used for the queen of Meroe. It is impossible to identify the Kandake here with any particular Ethiopian queen. In any case, the queen herself is significant only for demonstrating the high status of the eunuch converted by Philip in this passage.