Imeneus of Jerusalem
bishop of Jerusalem (Aelia Capitolina)
33rd Bishop of Jerusalem (Patriarch)
Offices
Imeneus of Jerusalem (260–276) also known as Hymeneus was the bishop of the Church of Jerusalem from 266 to 298. Imeneus was the second highest ranking delegate after Helenus, the Bishop of Tarsus, at the council in Antioch that was called in 268 to address the heresy of Paul of Samosata. Hymeneus reposed in 298.
Related people
- Zamudas of Jerusalem preceded · inferred
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Ecclesiastical History 1 claim — HE 7.14
- Oriens Christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus 1 claim — Oriens Christianus III, col. 101 sqq. — De Patriarchatu Hierosolymitano