CHAPTER XI

SIMEON RULED THE CHURCH OF JERUSALEM AFTER JAMES

AFTER the martyrdom of James, and the capture of Jerusalem, which immediately followed, it is reported, that those of the apostles and the disciples of our Lord, that were yet surviving, came together from all parts with those that were related to our Lord according to the flesh. For the greater part of them were yet living. These consulted together, to determine whom it was proper to pronounce worthy of being the successor of James. They all unanimously declared Simeon the son of Cleophas, of whom mention is made in the sacred volume, as worthy of the episcopal seat there. They say he was the cousin german of our Saviour, for Hegesippus asserts that Cleophas was the brother of Joseph.