Hegesippus (chronicler)

Saint

Hegesippus
Bornc. 110 AD
Diedc. 180 AD
Jerusalem, Syria Palaestina
Venerated inRoman Catholic Church
Eastern Orthodox Church
Feast7 April

Hegesippus (Ancient Greek: Ἡγήσιππος; c. 110 – c. 180 AD), 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.