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Saint Hegesippus (Ἅγιος Ἡγήσιππος) (c. 110 — c. April 7 180 AD) was a Christian chronicler of the early Church who may have been a Jewish convert and certainly wrote against heresies of the Gnostics and of Marcion. The date of Hegesippus is insecurely fixed by the statement of Eusebius that the death and apotheosis of Antinous (130) occurred in Hegesippus’ lifetime and that he came to Rome under Pope St. Anicetus and wrote in the time of Pope St.

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