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Legend makes Abdias (Obadiah) first bishop of Babylon one of the Seventy Apostles mentioned in the Gospel of Luke 10:1-20.Sts. Simon and Jude allegedly consecrated him as the first Bishop of Babylon. Nothing certain is known about him.Abdias is commemorated with a feast day on October 28.[citation needed]

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