Abdias, of Babylon, the supposititious author of a book called Historia Certaminis Apostolici (published at Basel in 1551), in which he asserted that he had seen Christ, that he was one of the 70 disciples, that he had witnessed the deaths of several of the apostles, and that he accompanied St. Simon and St. Jude into Persia, by whom he was made the first bishop of Babylon.