Theodotus of Amida[1] (died 15 August 698) was a Syriac Orthodox monk, bishop and holy man.
Theodotus was born in the village of Anat near the city of Amida in Roman Mesopotamia before the Arab conquest of 637–642.
[2] Early in the eighth century, a certain Symeon (Shemʿūn), a priest and precentor from Samosata, wrote a biography of Theodotus in Syriac.
[2][5][6] It "is one of the longest extant narrative sources of any kind from early Umayyad northern Mesopotamia"[6] and, more importantly, "a securely dated eye-witness account of life under Arab Muslim rule in the first century of Islam".
Some sought to press him into a formal office, but his contemporary, George, Bishop of the Arabs, declared that "wandering monks bearing bags and reliquaries of saints should not be welcomed" in the church.