Benjamin of Jerusalem
bishop of Jerusalem
6th Bishop of Jerusalem (Patriarch)
Offices
Benjamin I of Jerusalem was the 2nd-century 6th bishop of Jerusalem. According to Eusebius of Caesarea he was a Jewish Christian. His short episcopacy was only from about 116 to 117 AD. He was possibly killed in the persecution of Hadrian (117–138), His Feast Day was December 11.
Related people
- Tobias of Jerusalem succeeded · inferred
- John I preceded · inferred
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Ecclesiastical History 1 claim — HE 4.5
- Oriens Christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus 1 claim — Oriens Christianus III, col. 101 sqq. — De Patriarchatu Hierosolymitano