Senecas of Jerusalem

Senecas of Jerusalem was a 2nd century Jewish Christian bishop of Jerusalem.[1]

According to Eusebius of Caesarea, there were thirteen bishops of Jerusalem, between the fall of the Jewish temple and the Bar Kokhba revolt, all were Jewish Christians.[2] and he was 10th on that list. He is also mentioned in the Epistle of James to Quadratus.[3]

Some scholars[4] have suggested that he was not a bishop but rather a presbyter assisting James the first Bishop,[5] though this is controversial.


References

  1. ^ The History of the church in Jerusalem.
  2. ^ Historia Ecclesiastica, IV, v."
  3. ^ Richard Bauckham, Jude and the Relatives of Jesus in the Early Church (Bloomsbury Publishing, 29 Jan. 2015) p 73.
  4. ^ van den Broek (1988) 58 (10)
  5. ^ Richard Bauckham, Jude and the Relatives of Jesus in the Early Church (Bloomsbury Publishing, 29 Jan. 2015) p 73-74.