The Jerusalem Patriarchate Celebrated the Holy Jacob the Brother Seertranslated

With fitting splendor, the feast of the Holy Jacob the Brother Seer was celebrated with the ancient liturgy at the Jerusalem Patriarchate, presided over by the Most Reverend Metropolitan of Jerusalem, Archimandrite Hesychios.

The Archdiocese announcement continues:

On Thursday, October 23/November 5, 2026, the memory of the Holy Jacob the Brother Seer was celebrated by the Patriarchate.

On this feast, the Church, especially the Churches of Jerusalem, recalls that the Holy Jacob (died 62) calls himself "servant of God and Lord Jesus Christ" in his own epistle, the Apostle Paul calls him "brother of the Lord," the holy and foreign writers call him "brother of Jesus" or "cousin of the Lord," and since the 4th century, the tradition calls him "Brother Seer."

The Holy Jacob was appointed by the Lord "shepherd and teacher of the mysteries of the spiritual things, and first Hierarch of the Church of Jerusalem." He presided over the First Apostolic Council of the Church of Jerusalem in the year 49, which Council is the prototype of all subsequent Councils and his contribution was decisive and definitive in establishing the place of the Gentile Christians in the Church, and he handed down to us the in the...