Judah Kyriakos
Jewish bishop of Jerusalem
15th Bishop of Jerusalem (Patriarch)
Offices
Judah Kyriakos, also known popularly as Judas of Jerusalem, was the great-grandson of Jude, brother of Jesus, and the fifteenth Bishop of Jerusalem, according to Epiphanius of Salamis and Eusebius of Caesarea. According to those same chroniclers, he was the last Jew to hold the episcopate. He is sometimes regarded as the great-grandnephew of Jesus.
Related people
- Joseph I of Jersusalem succeeded · inferred
- Marcus of Jerusalem 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