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Justus II of Jerusalem

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Justus II of Jerusalem was a 2nd-century Jewish Christian bishop of Jerusalem.[1]

According to Eusebius of Caesarea, there were thirteen bishops of Jerusalem, all Jewish Christians.[2] and he was 11th on that list. Exact dates are not given by Eusebius, for his bishopric.

Justus is also mentioned in the apocryphal Letter of James to Quadratus,[3] and Epiphanius of Salamis.[4]

Some scholars[5] have suggested that he was not a bishop but rather a presbyter assisting James the first Bishop,[6] though this is controversial.

References

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  1. ^ The History of the Jerusalem Church.
  2. ^ Historia Ecclesiastica, IV, v."
  3. ^ Richard Bauckham, Jude and the Relatives of Jesus in the Early Church (Bloomsbury Publishing, 29 Jan. 2015) p 73.
  4. ^ The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis: Book I (Sects 1-46) By Epiphanius, Epiphanius of Salamis, Translated by Frank Williams, 1987 ISBN 90-04-07926-2 p xi
  5. ^ van den Broek (1988) 58 (10)
  6. ^ Richard Bauckham, Jude and the Relatives of Jesus in the Early Church (Bloomsbury Publishing, 29 Jan. 2015) p 73-74.