Abdas | |
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| Born | 4th century |
| Died | 420 |
| Venerated in | Eastern Orthodoxy Roman Catholicism Oriental Orthodoxy |
| Feast | March 31 (Syriac Christianity) May 16 (Western Christianity) |
Abdas, (also Abda, Abdias, and Audas) was bishop of Susa in Iran. Socrates of Constantinople calls him "bishop of Persia".[1] He was executed under the orders of shah Yazdegerd I after refusing to rebuild a Zoroastrian fire temple that he had destroyed.
- ^ Socrates Scholasticus, Ecclesiastical history, vii. 8 Archived 2005-01-18 at the Wayback Machine