[frogjerk]

I don’t know which list you are referring to but if you are thinking of the original Disciples, he was not one of them.

James was an original Apostle - Galatians 1:17-19.

Neither went I to Jerusalem, to the apostles who were before me: but I went into Arabia, and again I returned to Damascus. Then, after three years, I went to Jerusalem to see Peter: and I tarried with him fifteen days. But other of the apostles I saw none, saving James the brother of the Lord.

[blue-duncan]

The book of Galations was written after Paul’s second visit to Jerusalem during the meeting at the Jerusalem Church over the mission to the Gentiles( Gal 2:1 Act 15:1-4). James, the Lord’s brother was the Pastor at the time. James, the Lord’s cousin, the previous Pastor of the Church, had been martyred sometime before (Act 12:2).

When Paul is writing the Galation letter he is referring to James by his then title.