Key facts
- Born
- 1st century BC
- Died
- c. AD 50
- Venerated in
- Assyrian Church of the East , Catholic Church , Eastern Orthodox Church , Oriental Orthodox Church
- Feast
- 4th Friday after Easter (Assyrian Church of the East)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Osroene
- Spouse
- Helena of Adiabene
- Occupation
- monarch
- Family
- Abgar
- Image
- Abgarwithimageofedessa10thcentury.jpg
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- described by source
- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
- date of death
- 0050-01-01
- canonization status
- saint
- Commons category
- Abgar V
- date of birth
- 0001-01-01
- P8168
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Encyclopedic overview
Abgar V (c. 1st century BC – c. AD 50), called Ukkāmā (meaning "the Black" in Syriac and other dialects of Aramaic), was an Arab King of Osroene with his capital at Edessa and described as "king of the Arabs".
Background
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Abgar V” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.