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Aitalaha

4th-century Bishop of Edessa

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 24, 2025
Entity authorityQ123561015 ↗
Source-derived summary

Aitalaha was the Bishop of Edessa from 324/5 AD to 345/6 AD.

Spellings

He is also known as Aeithales, Ethilaos, Ethalas, Aithilaha, Aithalas, Aitallaha, Aithalla, Euthalius, Aeithilas, Ethalaha, or Absalom of Edessa.

Life

He was a deacon in Edessa when Licinius (fl. 308–324) was the Roman emperor.

Shortly after succeeding Sa'ad as Bishop of Edessa, he was one of the presiding members of the First Council of Nicaea in 325.

He died in 345 and was succeeded by Abraham of Edessa.

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This entry incorporates text from “Aitalaha” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.