Hegesippus
2nd century Christian saint and chronicler
b. 110 · d. 180
Hegesippus, also known as Hegesippus the Nazarene, was a Christian writer of the early Church who, in spite of his Greek name, may have been a Jewish convert and certainly wrote against heresies of the Gnostics and of Marcion.
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How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Ecclesiastical History 3 claims — Hegesippus goes up to Rome; Hegesippus writes the five books of Memoirs; What Hegesippus made at Rome
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- What Hegesippus made at Rome One word in one sentence decides whether the earliest list of the bishops of Rome was written in the second century or not, and the word is the one this project is named after. Eusebius quotes Hegesippus saying that…