What were the names of Virgin Mother Mary's parents?

Answer 1

Mary's father was Eli or Heli of the tribe of Judah.

Mary, the mother of Jesus, was the daughter of Heli.

However, the genealogy given by Luke actually names Joseph, Mary's husband as being '[son] of Heli.' ~Luke ch 3 v23.

(Elsewhere, Joseph's father is recorded as being a man called Jacob. -Matthew 1:16)

Evidently Matthew is listing Joseph's ancestry, and Luke is listing Mary's ancestry.

But why is Mary's name not then recorded in Luke's list? M'Clintock and Strong's Cyclopaedia explains that the Jews, in constructing their genealogical tables, reckoned wholly by males, and where the blood of the grandfather passed to the grandson through a daughter, the name of the daughter was omitted. In her place they put the name of that daughter's husband as the descendant of the maternal grandfather. (See Numbers Ch . 26 v 33; & Ch 27vs 4-7)

Doubtless this is why Luke omitted Mary's actual name from her genealogical record, inserting, not her name, but the name of her husband in that table of her family tree.

that is not true. Hebrew records show the parents of maryam מרימ in Hebrew, from which the name Mary derives. and her parents names were =father יהויקים =yehoyaqim and her mother's name was חנה = xannah from which the name Anna derives. both of her parents have a history among Hebrew records...but don't mistake Jews for hebrews....hebrews are originally a brown skinned people. that is why my master whom English speakers erroneously call Jesus the christ...whose name as told by Hebrew prophets before there was any such thing as Christianity...is יהושע = yehowsha"a ....that is the reason my master yehowshua hid in the egyptland...he didnt just go there, he hid there, and a pale skinned person could not have hid in egyptland in those days, because that was before the europeans and Arabs invaded the lands with their religious wars. the people of egyptland are brown skinned, as shown by their many arts throughout their history

Catholic Answer:

2000 years of Catholic tradition name Saint Joachim as the father of the Blessed Virgin Mary. He and his wife, Anne, are named as Mary's parents in the apocryphal Gospel of James. We have nothing to confirm this so it must stand as a legend. However, it makes little difference as we know Mary had parents. It would make little difference if their names were Ozzie and Harriet or Homer and Marge. If it was the Secret Garden, then it didn't describe her dad's name, but her uncle's name is Mr.Craven.

Answer 2

The Bible itself doesn't give the names of Mary's parents. The books of Matthew and Luke both give a genealogy of Jesus and the names don't match-up very well.

Catholic Answer:

According to the Gospel of James, which is not canonical but still respected, and other documents from early Church fathers, the names of the Blessed Virgin's parents were Joaquin and Anne.

Another Answer:

The name of the Virgin Mary's father is known. In the Bible Luke 3:23 says that Joseph was the son of Heli, sometimes translated as Eli:- Standard Version

Jesus himself was about 30 years old when he began his ministry. He was (so it was thought) the son of Joseph, the son of Heli,New American Standard Bible

When He began His ministry, Jesus Himself was about thirty years of age, being, as was supposed, the son of Joseph, the son of Eli,King James Bible

And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,

This is proven by Jewish family genealogies and their accuracy. In his "Daily Bible Illustrations" Dr Kitto writes: The fact that the descent of Jesus from David could be established by registers , and the presence of two such minute pedigrees as those of Matthew and Luke, evince that the Jews were, up to this time, still careful in the registration of family descents....The rabbins [sic] assure us that [after the captivity] they became still more careful in registering their genealogies; with immediate reference, doubtless, to the expectation of the Messiah; but with the ulterior object ...of preserving means for establishing the exact fulfillment of the predictions respecting his parentage. That such existed to even a later date is shown by Josephus, who declares that he traced his own descent in the tribe of Levi by public registers; and he expressly informs us that, however dispersed and dispossessed his nation were, they never failed to have exact genealogical tables prepared from the authentic documents which were kept at Jerusalem; and that in all their sufferings they were particularly careful to preserve these tables, which were renewed from time to time.

(From page 76 of "Daily Bible Illustrations - The Life and Death of Our Lord " section "29th Week, Third Day" by Dr Kitto, exact date unknown but possibly 1871.)

This means the Bible genealogies can be trusted. The Bible tells us David's wife Bathsheba had 4 sons, 2 of whom were Nathan and Solomon:-

1Ch 3:5 ...[David's]wife Bathsheba, daughter of Ammiel, bore him four sons: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon.

Solomon became king, and among his descendants was Joseph, (the husband of Mary the mother of Jesus, and Jesus' stepfather); his genealogy is given in Matthew chapter 1:- Mat 1:7 [Good News Bible] From David to the time when the people of Israel were taken into exile in Babylon, the following ancestors are listed: David, Solomon (his mother was the woman who had been Uriah's wife [ie Bathsheba]), Rehoboam, Abijah, Asa, Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, Manasseh, Amon, Josiah, and Jehoiachin and his brothers.

Mat 1:12 From the time after the exile in Babylon to the birth of Jesus, the following ancestors are listed: Jehoiachin, Shealtiel, Zerubbabel, Abiud, Eliakim, Azor, Zadok, Achim, Eliud, Eleazar, Matthan, Jacob, and Joseph, who married Mary, the mother of Jesus, who was called the Messiah.

However, his wife Mary traced her lineage back to Solomon's brother Nathan:-

Luk 3:23-31 CEV When Jesus began to preach, he was about thirty years old. Everyone thought he was the son of Joseph. But his family went back through Heli, [v. 24] Matthat, Levi, Melchi, Jannai, Joseph, [v. 25] Mattathias, Amos, Nahum, Esli, Naggai, [v. 26] Maath, Mattathias, Semein, Josech, Joda; [v. 27] Joanan, Rhesa, Zerubbabel, Shealtiel, Neri, [v. 28] Melchi, Addi, Cosam, Elmadam, Er, [v. 29] Joshua, Eliezer, Jorim, Matthat, Levi; [v. 30] Simeon, Judah, Joseph, Jonam, Eliakim, [v. 31] Melea, Menna, Mattatha, Nathan, David,

Regarding these genealogies in Matthew and Luke, Dr William Smith says in 'Smith's Bible Dictionary' (1884) in the article 'Genealogy of Jesus Christ', that:-"1. They are both the genealogies of Joseph, that is, of Jesus Christas the reputed and legal son of Joseph and Mary. 2. The genealogy of St. Matthew is Joseph's genealogy as legal successor to the throne of David. St. Luke's is Joseph's private Genealogy, exhibiting his real birth as David's son, and thus, showing why he was heir to Solomon's crown. The simple principle that one evangelist exhibits that genealogy which contained the successive heir to David's and Solomon's throne, while the other exhibits the paternal stem of him who was the heir, explains all the anomalies of the two pedigrees, their agreements as well as their discrepancies, and the circumstance of there being two at all. 3. Mary, the mother of Jesus, was in all probability the daughter of Jacob, and first cousin to Joseph, her husband. ... (Godet, Lange and many others take the ground that St. Luke gives the genealogy of Mary, rendering Luk_3:23thus: Jesus"being (as was suppposed), the son of Joseph, (but, in reality), the son of Heli." In this case, Mary, as declared in the Targums, was the daughter of Heli, and Heli was the grandfather of Jesus. Mary's name was omitted because "ancient sentiment did not comport with the mention of the mother as the genealogical link." So we often find in the Old Testament, the grandson called the son. This ... shows that Jesuswas not merely the legal but the actual descendant of David; and it would be very strange that in the gospel accounts, where so much is made of Jesusbeing the son and heir of David and of his kingdom [that] his real descent from David should not be given. ).

In his "Daily Bible Illustrations" Dr Kitto says:-"... But the two genealoogies are materially different. They coincide until David, when Matthew takes the ruling line [ie of Solomon]; whereas Luke takes the ...line by David's son Nathan....Matthew makesJoseph the son of Jacob,whereas Luke represents him as Heli, or Eli. He could not naturally have been the son of both these persons [thus] Jacob and Heli are different names for the same person. They are obviously two different genealogies from the common ancestor David.....[T]he genealogy in Matthew is that of Joseph, and the one in Luke that of Mary - the former being the legal, and the latter thereal genealogy of Jesus.....

Furthermore, Mary is always called by the Jews 'the daughter of Heli' and by the early Christian writers 'the daughter of Joakim and Anna'. Now, Joakim and Eliakim (as different names in Hebrew for God) are sometimes interchanged; so that Heli or Eli is an abridged form ofEliakim interchanged for Joakim."

(From page 77 of "Daily Bible Illustrations - The Life and Death of Our Lord " section "29th Week, Third Day" by Dr Kitto, exact date unknown but possibly 1871.)

The Bible says in Luke 3:23 that Mary's father was Heli, and he was the "father of Mary and father-in-law of Joseph in the line Jesus Christ's royal ancestry " (From http://www.christiananswers.net/dictionary/heli.html Dictionary entry 'Heli')

It is known from other sources that her father was also called Joachim, and her mother was Anna:-Little is known of Mary's personal history from the New Testament. Her parents are not named in the canonical texts, but in apocryphal sources, widely accepted by later tradition, were Joachim and Anne. She was a relative of Elizabeth, wife of the priest Zechariah of the priestly division of Abijah, who herself was of the lineage of Aaron and so of the tribe of Levi. In spite of this, some speculate that Mary, like Joseph, to whom she was betrothed, was of the House of David and so of the tribe of Judah, and that the genealogy presented in Luke was hers, while Joseph's is given in Matthew.

(From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Mary Article'Mary (mother of Jesus)', )

Saint Joachim ... was the husband of Saint Anneand the father of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and therefore is ascribed the title of "forebearer of God", in the Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican traditions. The canonical Gospel accounts in the New Testament do not explicitly name either of Mary's parents, but some argue that the genealogy in Luke 3 is that of Mary rather than Joseph, thereby naming her father as Eli. ... The story of Sts Joachim and Anne appears in the apocryphal Gospel of James.

(From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim article 'Joachim')

So, the names of Mary's parents are known: the Bible tells us Mary's father was Heli (aka Eli, Eliakim, or Joakim, Joachim) and both an apocryphal gospel and Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican church tradition tell us her father was Joachim and her mother was Anne.

The Bible tells us her father Heli's father (ie Mary's grandfather) was Matthat, and his father was Levi:-

Luk 3:23 When Jesus began to preach, he was about thirty years old. Everyone thought he was the son of Joseph. But his family went back through Heli,

(v.24) Matthat, Levi, etc

The Bible does not tell us exactly where they were born, but it had to have been in the area around Bethlehem as Joseph had to go to Bethlehem because you had to return to where you were born for the census, and land was passed down from the father to the son:-

Luk 2:4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:) (v.5) To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.

To summarize, Mary's father was Heli (aka Eli, Eliakim, or Joakim, Joachim) and her mother was Anne, her paternal grandfather was Matthat, and his father was Levi, and all the males would have been born around Bethlehem.

Answer 3

The Blessed Virgin Mary's parents were Joachim and Anne.

Answer 4

The Gospel does not tell us but Catholic tradition states her father's name was Joachim and her mother was Anne.

Answer 5

Catholic tradition holds that the parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary are: St. Joachim and St. Anne.

Answer 6

Roman Catholic AnswerTradition has always taught that the parents of the Blessed Virgin were Joachim and Anne.

Answer 7

Tradition tells us her father was Saint Joachim.

Answer 8

Tradition tells us that her parents were named Anne and Joachin.

Answer 9

St. Joseph was the husband of Mary.