[2] Traditionally, Jordan was considered a companion of Augustine of Canterbury who came to the South West of England in the early 7th century, founded a local church, and was later venerated as a saint.

[10] A 15th century hymn to the saint describes him as a companion of Augustine of Canterbury who helped preach the gospel to the English and whose relics were later entombed at Bristol.

"[12] He concluded that Augustine may only have ordained Jordan a priest or deacon after he had reached the age of 30 and that his missionary activities may have taken a more "folk-centered" character, lacking the kind of "political weight" and "central ecclesiastical acclaim" that would have ensured a mention in Bede.

In 1899, George Edward Weare suggested that Jordan may have been a close relative of Robert Fitzharding, the founder of St. Augustine's Abbey, and that the chapel named in his honour on College Green may have been built by him or "erected after his death as a memorial".

"[8] If Weare and Ellis's conclusions are correct, Jordan, like Robert Fitzharding, would be the son of Harding of Bristol and the grandson of Eadnoth the Staller, the Anglo-Saxon thegn and steward to Edward the Confessor.

[4] The hymn reads, in part, as follows: O Jordan, blessed confessor of Christ and citizen of Heaven, intercede for us by virtue of the faith we of the English church profess, whom Augustine [first] baptised and you perfected in that holy trust, whose colleague (alt.

Robert fitz Harding, first Lord Berkeley of the second creation, was founder of St Augustine’s Abbey, in his lordship of Bilswick, which also encompassed the Green where St. Jordan is supposed to have been buried and where stood his chapel.

"[22] Despite these indications of the cult's presence in the city, Fleming concluded that the extent of Bristolians' veneration of Jordan remained unclear, partly because "his name is not known to have been attached to any other location in Bristol," and "there is no reference to him in Ricart's Kalendar.

"[26] However, maps of Bristol from the 17th century by cartographers John Speed and James Millerd appear to show the location of St. Jordan's former chapel before it was destroyed.