All three trace their successions back to James the Just, brother of Jesus, who was head of the first Christian Church in Jerusalem. The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem is one of the Roman Catholic patriarchs of the east. The Patriarchate of Jerusalem is the oldest of Eastern Catholic Patriarchates, and the only one that still follows the Latin Rite. ... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... The Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem ranks fourth of nine patriarchs in the Eastern Orthodox Church. ... Eastern Orthodoxy (also called Greek Orthodoxy and Russian Orthodoxy) is a Christian tradition which represents the majority of Eastern Christianity. ...-1... The Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem was founded in 638. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Saint James the Just also called James Adelphos (יעקב Holder of the heel; supplanter; Standard Hebrew Yaʿaqov, Tiberian Hebrew Yaʿăqōḇ) (died AD 62) was the first bishop or patriarch of Jerusalem, to give him the title assigned to him by Pauline Christianity. ... The neutrality and accuracy of this article are disputed. ... Christianity is an Abrahamic religion based on the life, teachings, death by crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth as described in the New Testament. ... Jerusalem (Hebrew: יְרוּשָׁלַיִם Yerushalayim; Arabic: القدس al-Quds; see also names of Jerusalem) is an ancient Middle Eastern city of key importance to the religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. ...
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Simeon of Jerusalem, son of Cleophas was the leader of the Christianized Jews at Jerusalem.
Eusebius says he was appointed bishop by Peter, James (whom Eusebius identifies with James the Greater rather than James the Just who was in charge of the Christian community at Jerusalem), and John (II, i).
Simeon was bishop at the time of the destruction of the Second Temple in AD 70 and may have gone with most of the Christians to Pella.
Bishop of Salamis (isle of Cyprus) from 367 to 402.
Bishop of Hippo (in the Roman colony on the northern coast of western Africa).
Traditionally ascribed to Gelasius, bishop of Rome from 492 to 496, and thought to be promulgated by him as president of a council of 70 bishops in Rome, but now regarded by most scholars as spurious, and probably composed by an Italian churchman in the sixth century.
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