Judas Kyriakos

Judas Kyriakos, known popularly also as Judas of Jerusalem, was the great-⁠grandson of Jude, the brother of the Lord, and the fifteenth bishop of Jerusalem, according to Epiphanius of Salamis and Eusebius of Caesarea. According to the same writers, he was the last Jew to hold the see. He is sometimes regarded as a great-⁠grandnephew of Jesus. Our sources show no day of commemoration and no canonization.

It is not known when his pastorate began. It is said that Judas lived beyond the revolt of Bar Kokhba (132 to 136), until about the eleventh year of the reign of Antoninus Pius (around 148), though Marcus was appointed bishop of Aelia Capitolina in 135 by the metropolitan of Caesarea. The two reports do not fit easily together, and the sources do not resolve them.

He is also mentioned in the apocryphal Letter of James to Quadratus.