Tobias of Jerusalem

Saint Tobias of Jerusalem was, in the second century, the fifth bishop of Jerusalem, a Christian of Jewish origin. His commemoration is on 17 December; the Catholic Church keeps on 17 May a joint commemoration of the early bishops of Jerusalem.

According to Eusebius, Tobias was a Jewish Christian, born of Jewish parents who kept the Law. One source says that he knew Thaddeus of Edessa, who worked healings and was one of the seventy disciples (Luke 10:1 and 17). A Greek source says that his episcopate was short, whether because of persecutions or for other reasons, and that more recent research has wrongly taken him for a presbyter or bishop of another city, not of Jerusalem. The sources say no more about his life.