薩爾皮丘·奎里紐

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.