High Priest of Israel — Office · Judaism

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Succession in office

Who held it, in order

A sequence of office-holders, not a family genealogy.

22 holders
2 gaps
8 steps named in the records
10 undated

What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

515 BCE – 490 BCE Joshua biblical character (Book of Zechariah)
Gap about 338 years with no holder recorded

152 BCE – 143 BCE Jonathan Apphus Leader of the Hasmonean dynasty from 161 to 143 BCE
143 BCE – 134 BCE Simon Thassi second son of Mattathias, the first prince (r. 141–135 BCE) of the Hasmonean dynasty of the Kingdom of Judea
134 BCE – 104 BCE John Hyrcanus Hasmonean ruler
104 BCE – 103 BCE Aristobulus I ruler of Hebrew Hasmonean Dynasty
103 BCE – 76 BCE Alexander Jannaeus second king of the Hasmonean dynasty of Judea
76 BCE – 66 BCE Hyrcanus II High Priest and king of Judea
66 BCE – 63 BCE Aristobulus II Jewish High Priest and King of Judea, 66 BC to 63 BC
63 BCE – 40 BCE Hyrcanus II High Priest and king of Judea
40 BCE – 37 BCE Antigonus II Mattathias king of Judea
36 BCE Aristobulus III of Judea last scion of the Hasmonean royal house
Gap about 81 years with no holder recorded

46 CE – 58 CE Ananias ben Nedebaios 1st century AD High Priest of Israel

No dates recorded 10

Dates unrecorded Aaron male human biblical and quranic figure, brother of Moses
Dates unrecorded Eli High Priest of Shiloh (Books of Samuel)
Dates unrecorded Eleazar male human biblical figure in Exodus 6:23, son of Aaron, Hebrew Bible priest
Dates unrecorded Ahimelech Biblical character; priest at Nob (1 Samuel)
Dates unrecorded Abiathar male human biblical figure in 1 Samuel 22:20-23 &c, high priest at Nob
Dates unrecorded Phinehas Third high priest of Israel
Dates unrecorded Hilkiah Hebrew priest at the time of King Josiah
Dates unrecorded Jehoiada Biblical character, in 2 Chronicles and 2 Kings
Dates unrecorded Zadok biblical character
Dates unrecorded Simeon the Just Jewish High Priest during the time of the Second Temple