Marcus of Jerusalem

First non-Jewish bishop of Jerusalem

b. 135 · d. 156

16th Bishop of Jerusalem (Patriarch)

Offices

Bishop of Jerusalem (Patriarch) № 16

Mark or Mahalia, sixteenth bishop of Jerusalem was the first non-Jewish bishop of Jerusalem, renamed as Aelia Capitolina.

Related people

Judah Kyriakos succeeded · inferred

Commemorated

Marcus of Jerusalem

How we know

Recorded as a historical figure.

Oriens Christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus 1 claim — Oriens Christianus III, col. 101 sqq. — De Patriarchatu Hierosolymitano