Saint Hegesippus
- Memorial
- 7 April
- Profile
- Born Jewish; adult convert.
Lived twenty years in Rome where he researched the early church; in later years he retired to Jerusalem.
The first to trace and record the succession of the bishops of Rome from Saint Peter to his own day.
Considered the father of ecclesiastical history; little of his writings have survived, but he was highly recommended by other early writers including Eusebius and Saint Jerome.
Compiled a catalogue of heresies during the first centuries of Christianity.
- Born
- at Jerusalem
- Died
- c.180 in Jerusalem of natural causes
- Canonized
- Pre-Congregation
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