Aḥudemmeh of Balad
author: Sebastian P. Brock
source date: 2011
edition published: 2016-09-22-16:00
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Aḥudemmeh of Balad

https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Ahudemmeh-of-Balad http://syriaca.org/bibl/34 25 http://syriaca.org/person/67 [person] [Metropolitan ‘of the East’, known as the Apostle of the Arabs.]

(d. 575) [Syr. Orth.]

Metropolitan ‘of the East’, known as the Apostle of the Arabs. Originating from Balad , he became first bp. of Beth ʿArbaye , and was subsequently consecrated as Metropolitan of the East by Yaʿqub Burdʿoyo (in 559). He undertook much missionary work, and it was due to his conversion of a son of Khusrau I that he was eventually put to death (2 Aug. 575). An informative biography, by an unknown author, is preserved.

Sources

J.-M. Fiey, ‘Ahoudemmeh’, LM 81 (1968), 155–9.
F. Nau, Histoires d’Ahoudemmeh et de Marouta (PO 3.1; 1905), 7–51. (Syr. with FT)
Vööbus, History of Asceticism, vol. 3, 246–54.

Sebastian P. Brock