Cloud of Witnesses
Apostle 1st century

Apostle James the Brother of the Lord

Also known as James Adelphotheos · first Bishop of Jerusalem

A kinsman of the Lord and the first Bishop of Jerusalem, who led the early Church there and suffered martyrdom.

Feast Day
October 23
Also Dec 28
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Their life

A kinsman of the Lord and the first Bishop of Jerusalem, who led the early Church there and suffered martyrdom.

His companions & kin
Apostle
Apostle and Evangelist Mark
Apostle
Hieromartyr Simeon Kinsman of the Lord, Bishop of Jerusalem
Hieromartyr
Hieromartyr Eutyches
Hieromartyr
Hieromartyr Cornelius the Centurion
Hieromartyr
Hieromartyr Ignatius the God-Bearer Bishop of Antioch
Hieromartyr
Hieromartyrs Marcellus of Sicily Philagrius of Cyprus, and Pancratius of Taormina
Notes

Not James son of Zebedee or James son of Alphaeus. Dec 28 = commemorated with David the King and Joseph the Betrothed.

Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints