Ahudemmeh — ܐܚܘܕܐܡܗ
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Ahudemmeh; Aḥudemmeh of Balad; Mar Aḥudemeh; مار احودامه; ܡܪܝ ܐܚܘܕܐܡܗ; ܡܳܪܝ ܐܰܚܘܕܶܐܡܗ; ܐܚܘܕܐܡܗ; ܐܚܘܕܡܗ; Aḥūdemmeh; Ahoudemmeh; Ahudemmeh of Balad; ʾAḥūdemmēh; Ahoudemmeh; AḤŪDEMMEH; Aḥudemmeh; ܐܚܘܕܡܐ
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Metropolitan ‘of the East’, known as the Apostle of the Arabs.
In hagiography: Aḥūdemmeh was Bishop of Beth ʿArbaye and Catholicos of the Syrian Orthodox Church in the Sasanian Empire. Aḥūdemmeh also converted tribes of Arabs and died in prison.
Ahudemmeh was a miaphysite bishop in Persian Mesopotamia. He was consecrated, towards the end of the 550s, by Jacob Burd'oyo. Known as the 'apostle of the Arabs', he founded many churches and monasteries and spread miaphysite Christianity in regions that had been traditionally held by the dyophysite Church of the East. In the mid-570s, he was martyred on the orders of Khosrow because he had baptised one of the king's sons. However, Khosrow had been well inclined towards him previously, as is recorded in Joh. Eph., EH 6.20. The king hosted religious disputations between Ahudemmeh and the katholikos of the Church of the East, probably Joseph, and declared Ahudemmeh as the victor.
floruit: mid-6th century
birth: Balad
death: 575, 8/2/0575
male
state: Syriac Orthodox
state: Martyr
state: Apostle
state: Author
state: Saint
event: Ahudemmeh is commemorated in Aḥudemmeh (text).
S. P. Brock Aḥudemmeh of Balad The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage 13
The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences 62 299
كتاب اللؤلؤ المنثور في تاريخ العلوم والأداب السريانية 259
ܒܪ̈ܘܠܐ ܒܕܝܪ̈ܐ ܕܥܠ ܡܪܕܘܬ ܝܘܠܦܢ̈ܐ ܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ ܗܕܝܪ̈ܐ 285
Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca 474
Saints Syriaques AḤŪDEMMEH 36
J.M. Fiey BSO I 73-74
Baumstark, Geschichte der syrischen Literatur mit Ausschluß der christlich-palästinensischen Texte 178
Ortiz de Urbina, Patrologia Syriaca 116
Chabot, Littérature syriaque 77
Brock, A brief outline of Syriac literature 38
317 3.6.20
36-37
317