Hegesippus (chronicler)

Saint

Hegesippus
Saint; Hegesippus
Born	c.110 AD
Died	c.180 AD; Jerusalem, Syria Palaestina
Venerated in	Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church
Feast	7 April

Hegesippus (Ἅγιος Ἡγήσιππος; c. 110 – c.180 AD^[1]), also known as Hegesippus the Nazarene,^[2] was a Christian writer of the early Church who, in spite of his Greek name, may have been a Jewish convert^[3] and certainly wrote against heresies of the Gnostics and of Marcion.

^ The Chronicon Paschale places the death of Hegesippus in the reign of the Roman Emperor Commodus.
^ James Trimm, Hegesippus the Nazarene: Fragments from His Five Books of Memoirs, retrieved 7 April 2020
^ W. Telfer marshals Eusebius' reasons for concluding so, in "Was Hegesippus a Jew?" The Harvard Theological Review 53.2 (April 1960:143-153).

[1] The Chronicon Paschale places the death of Hegesippus in the reign of the Roman Emperor Commodus.

[2] James Trimm, Hegesippus the Nazarene: Fragments from His Five Books of Memoirs, retrieved 7 April 2020

[3] W. Telfer marshals Eusebius' reasons for concluding so, in "Was Hegesippus a Jew?" The Harvard Theological Review 53.2 (April 1960:143-153).

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