Benjamin of Jerusalem

Benjamin was the sixth bishop of Jerusalem, in the second century, one of the Christians of Jewish descent. Very little is known of him.

According to Eusebius of Caesarea, he was a Jewish Christian, one of the line of bishops of Jerusalem who came from among the Jews. His episcopate was short, from 116 to 117. He may have been put to death in the persecution in the time of the emperor Hadrian, who reigned from 117 to 138, but the sources do not say so with certainty.

A Greek historian of the Church of Jerusalem notes that the shortness of his pastorate may have been due to persecutions or to other circumstances. The same source adds that some more recent scholars have wrongly taken him for a presbyter or bishop of another city, not of Jerusalem.

His day of commemoration is 11 December.