Sadoth and Companions

Sadoth and Companions are venerated as martyrs. Holy Hieromartyr Sadoth (Shahdost, Sadoc) was bishop of Seleucia-⁠Ctesiphon and primate of the Church of the East from 341 to 343 in the Sasanian Empire. He was martyred in the great persecution of King Shapur II, together with one hundred and twenty-⁠eight companions; the Orthodox synaxarion lists him among the saints commemorated on 20 February (new style), as Sadoc of Persia. The sources about him are late: the Chronicle of Seert, of the ninth century, gives the fullest account, and short accounts appear in Bar Hebraeus (c. 1280) and in Nestorian historians. All call him anachronistically "catholicos" or "patriarch", titles used for the primates of the Church of the East only from the fifth century. He is regarded as a saint in several Eastern confessions.