Standard abbreviation: List Hippol.
Other titles: none
Clavis numbers: ECCA 473
Category: Lists of Apostles and Disciples
Related literature: various apocryphal acts
Compiled by: Tony Burke, York University
Citing this resource (using Chicago Manual of Style): Burke, Tony. “List of the Apostles and Disciples, by Pseudo-Hippolytus of Thebes.” e-Clavis: Christian Apocrypha. Accessed DAY MONTH YEAR. https://www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-christian-apocrypha/list-of-the-apostles-and-disciples-by-pseudo-hippolytus-of-thebes/.
Created February 2022. Current as of January 2024.
1. SUMMARY
The text is here presented in full from the translation by J. H. MacMahon (1886), with minor adjustments for spelling.
On the Twelve Apostles. Where each of them preached, and where he met his end.
1. Peter preached the Gospel in Pontus, and Galatia, and Cappadocia, and Bithynia, and Italy, and Asia, and was afterwards crucified by Nero in Rome with his head downward, as he had himself desired to suffer in that manner.
2. Andrew preached to the Scythians and Thracians, and was crucified, suspended on an olive tree, at Patras, a town of Achaea; and there too he was buried.
3. John, again, in Asia, was banished by Domitian the king to the isle of Patmos, on which also he wrote his Gospel and saw the apocalyptic vision; and in Trajan’s time he fell asleep at Ephesus, where his remains were sought for, but could not be found.
4. James, his brother, when preaching in Judea, was cut off with the sword by Herod the tetrarch, and was buried there.
5. Philip preached in Phrygia, and was crucified in Hierapolis with his head downward in the time of Domitian, and was buried there.
6. Bartholomew, again, preached to the Indians, to whom he also gave the Gospel according to Matthew, and was crucified with his head downward, and was buried in Allanum, a town of Armenia Major.
7. And Matthew wrote the Gospel in the Hebrew tongue, and published it at Jerusalem, and fell asleep at Hierees [i.e., the City of the Priests], a town of Parthia.
8. And Thomas preached to the Parthians, Medes, Persians, Hyrkanians, Bactrians, and Margians, and was thrust through in the four members of his body with a pine spear at Calamine, the city of India, and was buried there.
9. And James the son of Alphaeus, when preaching in Jerusalem, was stoned to death by the Jews, and was buried there beside the temple.
10. Jude, who is also called Lebbaeus, preached to the people of Edessa, and to all Mesopotamia, and fell asleep at Beirut, and was buried there.
11. Simon the Zealot, the son of Clopas, who is also called Jude, became bishop of Jerusalem after James the Just, and fell asleep and was buried there at the age of 120 years.
12. And Matthias, who was one of the seventy, was numbered along with the eleven apostles, and preached in Jerusalem, and fell asleep and was buried there.
13. And Paul entered into the apostleship a year after the assumption of Christ; and beginning at Jerusalem, he advanced as far as Illyricum, and Italy, and Spain, preaching the gospel for thirty-five years. And in the time of Nero he was beheaded at Rome, and was buried there.
On the Seventy Disciples
1. James the Lord’s brother, bishop of Jerusalem.
2. Cleopas, bishop of Jerusalem.
3. Matthias, who supplied the vacant place in the number of the twelve apostles.
4. Thaddeus, who conveyed the epistle to Augarus [i.e., Abgar].
5. Ananias, who baptized Paul, and was bishop of Damascus.
6. Stephen, the first martyr.
7. Philip, who baptized the eunuch.
8. Prochorus, bishop of Nicomedia, who also was the first that departed, believing together with his daughters.
9. Nicanor died when Stephen was martyred.
10. Timon, bishop of Bostra.
11. Parmenas, bishop of Soli.
12. Nicolaus, bishop of Samaria.
13. Barnabas, bishop of Milan.
14. Mark the evangelist, bishop of Alexandria.
15. Luke the evangelist.
These two belonged to the seventy disciples who were scattered by the offense of the word which Christ spoke, “Except a man eat my flesh, and drink my blood, he is not worthy of me.” But the one being induced to return to the Lord by Peter’s instrumentality, and the other by Paul’s, they were honoured to preach that Gospel on account of which they also suffered martyrdom, the one being burned, and the other being crucified on an olive tree.
16. Silas, bishop of Corinth.
17. Silvanus, bishop of Thessalonica.
18. Crisces (Crescens), bishop of Carchedon in Gaul.
19. Epaenetus, bishop of Carthage.
20. Andronicus, bishop of Pannonia.
21. Amplias, bishop of Odyssus [Edessa].
22. Urban, bishop of Macedonia.
23. Stachys, bishop of Byzantium.
24. Barnabas, bishop of Herakleia.
25. Phigellus, bishop of Ephesus. He was of the party also of Simon.
26. Hermogenes. He, too, was of the same mind with the former.
27. Demas, who also became a priest of idols.
28. Apelles, bishop of Smyrna.
29. Aristobulus, bishop of Britain.
30. Narcissus, bishop of Athens.
31. Herodion, bishop of Tarsus.
32. Agabus the prophet.
33. Rufus, bishop of Thebes.
34. Asyncritus, bishop of Hyrkania.
35. Phlegon, bishop of Marathon.
36. Hermes, bishop of Dalmatia.
37. Patrobulus, bishop of Puteoli.
38. Hermas, bishop of Philippi.
39. Linus, bishop of Rome.
40. Caius [Gaius], bishop of Ephesus.
41. Philologus, bishop of Sinope.
42, 43. Olympus and Rodion were martyred in Rome.
44. Lucius, bishop of Laodicea in Syria.
45. Jason, bishop of Tarsus.
46. Sosipater, bishop of Iconium.
47. Tertius, bishop of Iconium.
48. Erastus, bishop of Panellas.
49. Quartus, bishop of Beirut.
50. Apollo, bishop of Caesarea.
51. Cephas.
52. Sosthenes, bishop of Colophon.
53. Tychicus, bishop of Colophon.
54. Epaphroditus, bishop of Andriake.
55. Caesar, bishop of Dyrrachium.
56. Mark, cousin to Barnabas, bishop of Apollonias.
57. Justus, bishop of Eleutheropolis.
58. Artemas, bishop of Lystra.
59. Clement, bishop of Sardinia.
60. Onesiphorus, bishop of Coronea.
61. Tychicus, bishop of Chalcedon.
62. Carpus, bishop of Beirut in Thrace.
63. Evodius, bishop of Antioch.
64. Aristarchus, bishop of Apamea.
65. Mark, who is also John, bishop of Bibloupolis.
66. Zenas, bishop of Diospolis.
67. Philemon, bishop of Gaza.
68–70. Aristarchus, Pudens, Trophimus, who was martyred along with Paul.
2. RESOURCES
2.1 Web Sites and Other Online Resources
“On the Apostles and Disciples (Pseudo-Hippolytus).” New Advent (digitized version of MacMahon’s translation from the Ante-Nicene Fathers).
3. BIBLIOGRAPHY
3.1 Manuscripts and Editions
3.1.1 Church Slavic (translation of the florilegium of Simeon of Bulgaria; at present 3 Serbian and 28 East Slavic manuscripts are known of the collection).
Moscow, State History Museum, Synod. gr. 1043 (olim 31D), fols. 261r–263v (1073) ~ earliest manuscript; known as the Izbornik of Sviatoslav 1073
Barsov, E. V., and A. L. Djuvernua. Izbornik velikogo knjazja Svjatoslava Jaroslaviča 1073 goda. S grečeskim i latinskim tekstami. S predisloviem E. V. Barsova i zapiskoiu A. L. Djuvernua. Ctenija v Imperatorskom Obščestve istorii i drevnostej rossijskix 123. Moscow, 1883 (partial edition of the codex).
Dinekov, Petăr, ed. Simeonov sbornik (po Svetoslavovija prepis ot 1073 g.). 2 vols. Sofia: Bălgarska akademija na naukite, 1991–1993 (diplomatic edition of the codex).
Karpov, G., ed. Izbornik velikogo knjazja Svjatoslava 1073 g. Izdanie Imperatorskogo Obščestve liubitelej drevnej pis’mennosti 55. St. Petersburg, 1880 (facsimile of the codex).
Rybakov, B., ed. Izbornik Svjatoslava 1073 goda: Faksimil’noe izdanie. Moscow, 1983 (facsimile of the codex).
Temčin, Sergej. “The Old Church Slavonic Florilegium of Bulgarian Tsar Simeon in a Newly Identified Manuscript Copy from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania” (in Russian). Knygotyra 65 (2015): 254–68 (list of manuscripts, pp. 256–58).
3.1.2 Greek
3.1.2.1 List attributed to “Hippolytus” (BHG 153a=apostles; BHG 154b=disciples; CPG 1911; appears in copies of the florilegium of Simeon of Bulgaria)
A Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Coislin 120, fols. 223r–224v (10th cent.) ~ BHG 153a; Pinakes; Gallica
B Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, gr. 1085 (Reg. 1789), fols. 256r–258v (1001) ~ BHG 153a
B1 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Coislin 258, fols. 207v–210r (12th cent.) ~ BHG 153a+b; Pinakes; Gallica
C Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Coislin 296, fols. 32r–33r (12th cent.) ~ BHG 153a
D Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. gr. 1506 (13th/14th cent.) ~ subsequently identified as List of the Apostles (Anonymus I)
E Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, gr. 1555A, fols. 186v–188r (14th cent.) ~ BHG 153a+b; Pinakes; Gallica
e Mount Athos, Monē Esphigmenou, 131, fol. 247v–? (15th cent.) ~ Pinakes
e1 Naples, Biblioteca nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III, II C 34, fols. 72r–75r (16th cent.) ~ BHG 153a+b; Pinakes
e2 Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Ott. gr. 408, fols. 77r–80r (15th/16th cent.) ~ BHG 153a+b; Pinakes
e3 Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. gr. 1226, fol. 35–? (16th/17th cent.) ~ Pinakes
e4 Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. gr. 1177, fols. 468r–69r (16th/17th cent.) ~ BHG 153a; Pinakes
e5 Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. gr. 1862, fols. 19r–22r (16th/17th cent.) ~ BHG 153a+b; Pinakes
e6 Rome, Biblioteca Vallicelliana, 126, fol. 125 (16th/17th cent.) ~ BHG 153a+b; Pinakes; R26? with BHG 155 fols. 126v-127v, BHG 153a/b fols. 127v-128v
F Rome, Biblioteca Vallicelliana, C.97.II (Martini 47), fol. 59v–61r (1425) ~ BHG 153a/b + 155; Pinakes
f Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 46 cod. 13, fol. 61 (15th cent.)
f1 Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Barb. gr. 306, fol. 150v–? (16th cent.) ~ Pinakes
f2 Naples, Biblioteca nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III, II A 27, fols. 309r–311v (15th cent.) ~ BHG 153a+b; Pinakes
Additional manuscripts (unverified):
Athens, Ethnikē Bibliothēkē tēs Hellados, Metochion tou Panagiou Taphou 303 (14–16th cent.) ~ BHG 153a; Pinakes
Athos, Monē Dionusiou, 166 (Lambros 3720), item 7 (14th cent.) ~ Pinakes
Athos, Monē Hagiou Paulou, 22 (Lambros 149), item (17th cent.) ~ Pinakes
Athos, Monē Megistēs Laura, Γ 115 (Eustratiades 355), fols. 153r–154r ~ BHG 153a; Pinakes; LOC
Cambridge, Trinity College, O.8.22 (1397), fol. 17 (17th cent.) ~ BHG 153a; Pinakes; images
Copenhagen, Det Konegelige Bibliotek, NKS 6 8º, fols. 1r–2v (11th cent.) ~ Pinakes
Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek, A 187, part 1, pp. 49–50 ~ BHG 153a
Escorial, Real Biblioteca, I.IV.5 (Andrés 499), fol. 114r–? (12th cent.)~ destroyed; Pinakes
Escorial, Real Biblioteca, X II 7 (Andrés 367), fol. 579r–580v (16th cent.) ~ BHG 153a+b; Pinakes
Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 56 cod. 13, fols. 16r–16v (15th cent.) ~ BHG 153a; Pinakes; images
Iskandariyya, Bibliothēkē tou Patriarcheiou, 258, fols. 67r–69v (undated) ~ Pinakes
London, British Library, Burney 54, fols. 33r–34v (1573) ~ Pinakes; images
Meteōra, Monē Barlaam, 195, fols. 49r–50v (17th cent.) ~ Pinakes
Meteōra, Monē Metamorphōseōs, 28, fols. 109r–109v (14th cent.) ~ BHG 153a; Pinakes
Mount Sinai, Monē tēs Hagias Aikaterinēs, gr. 2038, item 1 (13th/14th cent.) ~ Pinakes; LOC
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Auct. T.1.1 (Misc. 179), p. 416 (16th cent.) ~ BHG 153a+b; Pinakes
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Barocci 206, fols. 121r–122v (13th cent.) ~ BHG 153a; Pinakes
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fr. 9467, fols. 20r–25v (15th–17th cent.) ~ copy of Paris, BnF gr. 1115; Pinakes
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, gr. 159, fols. 469r–469v (13th cent.) ~ Pinakes; Gallica
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, gr. 1315, fols. 122r–123v ~ BHG 153a; Pinakes; Gallica
Rome, Biblioteca dell’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei e Corsiniana, 41.F.25, fols. 196r–198r (18th cent.) ~ BHG 153a+b; Pinakes
Rome, Biblioteca Vallicelliana, R 26, fols. 127v–128v (15th–17th cent.) ~ Pinakes
Salamanica, Biblioteca Universitaria, 2733, fols. 788–791 (16th cent.) ~ BHG 153a+b; Pinakes; images
St. Petersburg, Russian National Library/Rossijskaja Nacional’naja biblioteka (RNB), Ф. № 906 (Gr.) 100 (Granstrem 312) (1111) ~ Pinakes
Turin Biblioteca Nazaionale Universitaria, B.V.3 (Zuretti 7), fols. 2–4 (16th cent.) ~ now lost; BHG 153a+b; Pinakes
Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Ott. 414, fols. 174r–175r(10th/11th cent.) ~ Pinakes
Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. gr. 1914, fol. 90v–92r (14–17th cent.) ~ BHG 153a+b; Pinakes; DigiVatLib
Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. gr. 2220, fol. 359r–359v (1304–1305) ~ Pinakes; DigiVatLib
Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, gr. Z, 498 (coll. 432), fols. 120r–122v (14th cent.) ~ BHG 153a; Pinakes
Combefis, François. Bibliothecae graecorum patrum auctarium novissimum. 2 vols. Paris: Aegidii Hotot, 1648 (Latin translation, vol. 2, pp. 831–54).
Gallandius, Andreas (André Galland). Bibliotheca veterum patrum antiquorumque scriptorum ecclesiasticorum. 14 vols. Venice: Joannis Baptiste Albritii Hieron. Fil., 1765–1781 (text, vol. 14, pp. 117–19; apostles list with Latin translation from Combefis and disciples list from Oxford, Barocci 206 with Latin translation).
Migne, Jacques Paul. Patrologiae cursus completus: Series graeca. Vol. 10. Paris: Cerf, 1857 (reprint of Greek text and Latin translation from Gallandi, cols. 951–58).
Schermann, Theodor. Prophetarum vitae fabulosae, indices apostolorum discipulorumque Domini, Dorotheo, Epiphanio, Hippolyto aliisque vindicata. Leipzig: B. G. Teubneri, 1907 (edition based on 17 manuscripts with sigla provided above, pp. liii–lviii; 163–70).
3.1.2.2 List attributed to “Hippolytus of Thebes” (BHG 152z)
Escorial, Real Biblioteca, Ω.4.16 (16th cent.)
Mount Sinai, Monē tēs Hagias Aikaterinēs, gr. 267, fols. 218v–219r (14th cent.) ~ Pinakes
Mount Sinai, Monē tēs Hagias Aikaterinēs, gr. 1807, fols. 123v–128r (15th/16th cent.) ~ Pinakes; adds Dorothean disciple list
Moscow, State Historical Museum, Synod. gr. 186, fol. 164r–165r (1182) ~ Pinakes
3.1.2.3 De mortibus sanctorum apostolarum (identified by Guignard [2016:491–92] in several witnesses of the mixed Hippolytus-Epiphanius list [BHG 156])
3.1.2.4 List attributed to “Hieromartyr Hippolytus” (identified by Guignard [2016: 492] as containing expansions to some of the notices on the apostles)
Athos, Monē Batopediou, 659, fols. 2r–6v (14th cent.) ~ Pinakes
3.2 Modern Translations
3.2.1 English
MacMahon, J. H., trans. Pages 255–56 in Ante-Nicene Fathers. Vol. 5. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886.
3.3 General Works
Guignard, Christophe. “Greek Lists of the Apostles: New Findings and Open Questions.” ZAC 20 (2016): 469–95 (pp. 487–90).
Leloir, Louis. Écrits apocryphes sur les apôtres. CCSA 3–4. 2 vols. Turnhout: Brepols, 1986–1992 (introduction, vol. 2, pp. 711–22).
Lipsius, Richard A. Die Apokryphen Apostelgeschichten und Apostellegenden. Ein Beitrag zur altchristlichen Literaturgeschichte. 2 vols. Braunschweig: Schwetschke, 1883–1887 (see vol. 1, pp. 198–99).
Schermann, Theodor. Propheten- und Apostellegenden nebst Jüngerkatalogen des Dorotheus und verwandter Texte. TUGAL 31/3. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs, 1907 (esp. pp. 153–60).
Thomson, Francis J. “A Comparison of the Contents of the Two Translations of the Symeonic Florilegium on the Basis of the Greek Original Texts.” Кирило-Методиевски студии 17 (2007): 721–58.
———. “A Contribution to the Textology of the Symeonic Florilegium Together with the ‘Editio Princeps’ of the Part of Anastasian Question 20 Missing in the Codex of 1073.” Harvard Ukrainian Studies 28 (2006): 307–27.
Vinogradov, Andrey. “Апостольские списки – «забытая» страница христианской литературы [Apostolic Lists: A “Forgotten” Page of Christian Literature].” Богословские труды 40 (2005): 128–47 (esp. p. 136).
———. “Апостольские списки [Apostle Lists].” Pages 121–24 in vol. 3 of Православная энциклопедия [Orthodox Encyclopaedia]. Edited by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia. Moscow, 2000–.