Mark or Mahalia, sixteenth bishop of Jerusalem (served 135 – died 156) was the first non-Jewish bishop of Jerusalem, renamed as

Aelia Capitolina Aelia Capitolina (Traditional English Pronunciation: ; Latin in full: ) was a Roman colony founded during Emperor Hadrian's trip to Judah in 129/130, centered around Jerusalem, which had been almost totally razed after the siege of 70 CE. The f ...

. His secretary was traditionally thought to have been Aristo of Pella, though the Armenian chronicler

Movses Khorenatsi Movses Khorenatsi (ca. 410–490s AD; hy, Մովսէս Խորենացի, , also written as ''Movses Xorenac‘i'' and Moses of Khoren, Moses of Chorene, and Moses Chorenensis in Latin sources) was a prominent Armenian historian from the late a ...

’s evidence for this is scanty, late (7th Century) and ambiguous. He is listed in the Roman Martyrology on Oct. 22.List of the Martyrs
/ref> His successor was the Bishop Cassianus of Jerusalem.

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Saints from the Holy Land 2nd-century bishops of Jerusalem 156 deaths 2nd-century Christian saints Year of birth unknown {{EarlyChurch-bishop-stub