Category:Census of Quirinius

Articles related to the Census of Quirinius, a census of Judea taken by Publius Sulpicius Quirinius, Roman governor of Syria, upon the imposition of direct Roman rule in 6 CE. The Gospel of Luke uses it as the narrative means to establish the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem (Luke 2, ), but the Gospel of Matthew places the birth within the reign of Herod the Great, who died 9 years earlier.