Publius Sulpicius Quirinius
Also known as Quirinius, Cyrenius, Publius Sulpicius Quirinus
thumb|upright=1.4|Mary, mother of Jesus|Mary and Joseph register for the census before Governor Quirinius. Byzantine mosaic at the [[Chora Church, Constantinople 1315–1320.]] Publius Sulpicius Quirinius (c. 51 BC – AD 21), also translated as Cyrenius, was a Roman aristocrat. After the banishment of the ethnarch Herod Archelaus from the tetrarchy of Judea in AD 6, Quirinius was appointed legate governor of Syria, to which the province of Judaea had been added for census purposes.
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thumb|upright=1.4|Mary, mother of Jesus|Mary and Joseph register for the census before Governor Quirinius. Byzantine mosaic at the [[Chora Church, Constantinople 1315–1320.]] Publius Sulpicius Quirinius (c. 51 BC – AD 21), also translated as Cyrenius, was a Roman aristocrat. After the banishment of the ethnarch Herod Archelaus from the tetrarchy of Judea in AD 6, Quirinius was appointed legate governor of Syria, to which the province of Judaea had been added for census purposes.
==Life== Quirinius was born into an undistinguished family in Lanuvium, a Latin town near Rome. He was the son of Publius Sulpicius Quirinius and the paternal grandson of Publius Sulpicius Quirinius of Gens Sulpicia. Quirinius followed the normal path of service for an ambitious young man of his social class. According to the Roman historian Florus, Quirinius defeated the Marmaridae, a tribe of desert raiders from Cyrenaica, around 14 BC (possibly while governor of Crete and Cyrene), but declined the honorific name "Marmaricus". In 12 BC, he was named consul, a sign that he had Augustus's favor.