Senecas of Jerusalem

Senecas of Jerusalem was, in the second century, the tenth Jewish Christian bishop of Jerusalem. Our sources do not say that he was venerated as a saint and give no day of commemoration.

According to Eusebius of Caesarea, between the fall of the Second Temple and the Bar Kokhba revolt there were thirteen bishops of Jerusalem, all Jewish Christians, and Senecas was tenth on this list. He is also mentioned in the Epistle of James to Quadratus, an apocryphal text. Some scholars have suggested that he was not a bishop but a presbyter assisting James, the first bishop, but this is controversial. According to a Greek source his episcopate was short, whether because of persecutions or for other reasons, and the seat of his bishopric was Pella of the Decapolis.