Simeon of Jerusalem
human biblical figure in Acts 13:1, early bishop of Jerusalem
b. 1st century · d. c. 107
2nd Bishop of Jerusalem (Patriarch)
Offices
Simeon of Jerusalem, or Simon of Clopas, was a Jewish Christian leader and according to most Christian traditions the second Bishop of Jerusalem, succeeding James, brother of Jesus. Simeon is sometimes identified with Simon, brother of Jesus, and has also been identified with the Apostle Simon the Zealot.
Related people
- Mary of Clopas child of · traditional
- Cleopas child of · traditional
- James the Just succeeded · inferred
- Justus of Jerusalem preceded · inferred
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How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Ecclesiastical History 4 claims — HE 3.11, 3.32; Simeon succeeds James at Jerusalem; Fall of Jerusalem
- Oriens Christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus 1 claim — Oriens Christianus III, col. 101 sqq. — De Patriarchatu Hierosolymitano
Also recorded as
- Simon (brother of Jesus) traditionally identified with
- Simon of Cyrene possibly same
Glosses
- Clopas and Cleopas Two names one letter apart stand in the passion narratives and the church has never quite decided whether they are one man. Clopas appears once, and only in a genitive: standing by the cross was 'Mary the wife of…