Ephraim

Saint Ephraim was, in the second century, the thirteenth bishop of Jerusalem, a Christian of Jewish descent, in the time of the emperor Hadrian.

According to the historian Eusebius of Caesarea, Jerusalem had fifteen bishops, all Jewish Christians, who led the Church there until the revolt of Bar Kokhba. Ephraim was the thirteenth on this list. Eusebius gives no precise dates, but his episcopate is placed between the years 124 and 135. He is venerated as a saint and commemorated on 12 May, according to the Palestinian-⁠Georgian martyrology. Like other bishops of Jerusalem of that time, he is presumed to have been a victim of martyrdom in the troubles between the Jewish community and the Roman authorities.