Zacchaeus [SEP] position held
told us that Matthias in the beginning was with Jesus since the baptism of John (). John also told us that later many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him (). The later Apostolic Constitutions identify "Zacchaeus the Publican" as the first bishop of Caesarea (7.46).
Medieval legend identified Zacchaeus with Saint Amadour, and held him to be the founder of the French sanctuary, Rocamadour.
Liturgical practices.
In Eastern Orthodox and Greek-Catholic Churches of Slavic tradition, the Gospel
his position would have carried both importance and wealth. In the account, he arrived before the crowd who were later to meet with Jesus, who was passing through Jericho on his way to Jerusalem. He was short in stature and so was unable to see Jesus through the crowd (Luke 19:3). Zacchaeus then ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree along Jesus' path. When Jesus reached the spot he looked up at the sycamore tree (actually a sycamore-fig "ficus sycomorus"), addressed Zacchaeus by name