Zamudas of Jerusalem

Bishop of Jerusalem from 276 to 283

b. 3rd century · d. 300

34th Bishop of Jerusalem (Patriarch)

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Zamudas of Jerusalem was the thirty-seventh bishop of Jerusalem. There are divergent dates on the period of his episcopate, with some sources placing it between 276 and 283, while one source dates it to as late as 302. He succeeded Hymenaeus as bishop. He is venerated as a saint and is connected with the legend of the Theban Legion.

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How we know

Recorded as a historical figure.

  • Ecclesiastical History 1 claim — HE 7.32
  • Oriens Christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus 1 claim — Oriens Christianus III, col. 101 sqq. — De Patriarchatu Hierosolymitano

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