Bishop Οὐάφρης of Jerusalem

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The most intriguing passage in Epiphanius perhaps is his list of alleged bishops of Jerusalem:

καὶ ἔστιν οὕτως·

ˉα. Ἰάκωβος, ὃς ξύλῳ πληγεὶς ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις ἐμαρτύρησε, μέχρι Νέρωνος.
ˉβ. Συμεὼν ἐπὶ Τραϊανοῦ ἐσταυρώθη.
ˉγ. Ἰούδας.
ˉδ. Ζαχαρίας.
ˉε. Τωβίας.
ˉ. Βενιαμίν.
ˉζ. Ἰωάννης ἕως δέκα ἐννέα ἔτους Τραϊανοῦ.
ˉη. Ματθίας.
ˉθ. Φίλιππος.
ˉι. Σενέκας.
ˉιˉα. Ἰοῦστος ἕως Ἀδριανοῦ.
ˉιˉβ. Λευίς.
ˉιˉγ. Οὐάφρης.
ˉιˉδ. Ἰωσής.
ˉιˉε. Ἰούδας μέχρι ἑνδεκάτου Ἀντωνίου.

For me at least when I look at the names one stands out Οὐάφρης. In Eusebius it is Ἐφρῆς. All the other names look pretty generic - except maybe for Σενέκας. Really there was a bishop of Jerusalem named Seneca?

But let's focus on Οὐάφρης. What's the original name?

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Actually I realized I was being sloppy. Here is the passage in Eusebius:

διαλελοιπότων δ' οὖν τηνικαῦτα τῶν ἐκ περιτομῆς ἐπισκόπων, τοὺς ἀπὸ πρώτου νῦν ἀναγκαῖον ἂν εἴη καταλέξαι.

πρῶτος τοιγαροῦν Ἰάκωβος ὁ τοῦ κυρίου λεγόμενος ἀδελφὸς ἦν·
μεθ' ὃν δεύτερος Συμεών·
τρίτος Ἰοῦστος·
Ζακχαῖος τέταρτος·
πέμπτος Τωβίας·
ἕκτος Βενιαμίν·
Ἰωάννης ἕβδομος·
ὄγδοος Ματθίας·
ἔνατος Φίλιππος·
δέκατος Σενέκας·
ἑνδέκατος Ἰοῦστος·
Λευὶς δωδέκατος·
Ἐφρῆς τρισκαιδέκατος·
τεσσαρεσκαιδέκατος Ἰωσήφ·
ἐπὶ πᾶσι πεντεκαιδέκατος Ἰούδας.

τοσοῦτοι καὶ οἱ ἐπὶ τῆς Ἱεροσολύμων πόλεως ἐπίσκοποι ἀπὸ τῶν ἀποστόλων εἰς τὸν δηλούμενον διαγενόμενοι χρόνον, οἱ 4.5.5 πάντες ἐκ περιτομῆς. (4.5.4)

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Is the name of the thirteenth bishop עופר (= Opher)?

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Apparently Manetho mentions a Pharaoh named Ουαφρης.

Also Eupolemus from Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies 1.21:

Ἀλέξανδρος δὲ ὁ Πολυΐστωρ ἐπικληθεὶς ἐν τῷ περὶ Ἰουδαίων συγγράμματι ἀνέγραψέν τινας ἐπιστολὰς Σολομῶνος μὲν πρός τε Οὐάφρην τὸν Αἰγύπτου βασιλέα πρός τε τὸν Φοινίκης Τυρίων τάς τε αὐτῶν πρὸς Σολομῶντα, καθ᾽ ἃς δείκνυται ὁ μὲν Οὐάφρης ὀκτὼ μυριάδας ἀνδρῶν Αἰγυπτίων ἀπεσταλκέναι αὐτῷ εἰς οἰκοδομὴν τοῦ νεώ, ἅτερος δὲ τὰς ἴσας σὺν ἀρχιτέκτονι Τυρίῳ ἐκ μητρὸς Ἰουδαίας ἐκ τῆς φυλῆς Δαβίδ, ὡς ἐκεῖ γέγραπται, Ὑπέρων τοὔνομα. ....

And Alexander, surnamed Polyhistor, in his work on the Jews, has transcribed some letters of Solomon to Vaphres king of Egypt, and to the king of the Phoenicians at Tyre, and theirs to Solomon; in which it is shown that Vaphres sent eighty thousand Egyptian men to him for the building of the temple, and the other as many, along with a Tyrian artificer, the son of a Jewish mother, of the tribe of Dan, as is there written, of the name of Hyperon. ....

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Apparently this is:

Apries (Ancient Greek: Ἁπρίης) is the name by which Herodotus (ii. 161) and Diodorus (i. 68) designate Wahibre Haaibre, Ουαφρης (Pharaoh-Hophra), a pharaoh of Egypt (589 BC – 570 BC), the fourth king (counting from Psamtik I) of the Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt. He was equated with the Waphres of Manetho, who correctly records that he reigned for 19 years. Apries is also called Hophra in Jeremiah 44:30.

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Apparently the Pharaoh is designated חָפְרַע in Jeremiah 44:30. But what is the contemporary name of the bishop of Jerusalem?

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The names were translated in the nineteenth century:

Ephrem or Ephres; or as Epiphanius styles him, Vaphres, two years. https://books.google.com/books?id=0idWA ... 22&f=false

But can you really say that his name was Ephrem?

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The name Ouaphres was still used in the 3rd century BCE https://www.academia.edu/1406138/Ouaphr ... 08_249-257