Justus II of Jerusalem was a 2nd-century Jewish Christian bishop of Jerusalem.The History of the Jerusalem Church.
According to Eusebius of Caesarea, there were thirteen bishops of Jerusalem, all Jewish Christians,Historia Ecclesiastica, IV, v." and he was 11th on that list. Exact dates are not given by Eusebius for his bishopric.
Justus is also mentioned in the apocryphal Letter of James to Quadratus,Richard Bauckham, Jude and the Relatives of Jesus in the Early Church (Bloomsbury Publishing, 29 Jan. 2015) p 73. and Epiphanius of Salamis.The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis: Book I (Sects 1-46) By Epiphanius, Epiphanius of Salamis, Translated by Frank Williams, 1987 p xi
Some scholarsvan den Broek (1988) 58 (10) have suggested that he was not a bishop but rather a presbyter assisting James the first Bishop,Richard Bauckham, Jude and the Relatives of Jesus in the Early Church (Bloomsbury Publishing, 29 Jan. 2015) p 73-74. though this is controversial.
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