Portrait of Hegesippus

Hegesippus

2nd century Christian saint and chronicler

Lived
110–180

Updated September 2026

About Hegesippus

Hegesippus, also known as Hegesippus the Nazarene, was a Christian writer of the early Church who, in spite of his Greek name, may have been a Jewish convert and certainly wrote against heresies of the Gnostics and of Marcion.

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