Ahadabui

Ahadabui (Classical Syriac: ܐܚܐ ܕܐܒܘܝ, romanized: ʾaḥā d-avūy, lit.

When the patriarch of Antioch heard that Ahadabui was hiding in Jerusalem, he sent letters to the bishops of that region, asking them to lay hands on him and send him into the East.

Thereafter the Western bishops allowed the Eastern bishops to elect and consecrate a new leader after the death of the old one without him needing to go to Antioch, and wrote them a letter to this effect, that the grand metropolitan of the East might be proclaimed catholicus and patriarch; although the patriarch of Antioch was greatly displeased with the whole idea.

Ahadabui departed to the Lord after fulfilling his office for fifteen years, and was buried in the church of Seleucia.

[2] This story is regarded patently fictitious, as the cuoinage 'patriarchate of Antioch' is a later attribution to the holder of the lineage, and not applied by the third century AD.