death_date birth_place feast_day venerated_in titles article_title name
c. 389 border region between egypt and syria february 7 eastern orthodox churches `` apostle of the saracens '' moses -lrb- bishop -rrb-
 saint moses , bishop
moses -lrb- bishop -rrb-

moses or st moses spent many years in the 4th century as a hermit on the fringes of the roman empire between egypt and syria , before becoming the first arab bishop of the arab people .
as he was well respected for his piety , faith , and supposed performance of miracles , mavia , an arab warrior-queen , made his consecration as bishop over her people a condition of any truce with rome .
moses had no fixed see after his consecration as bishop , journeying instead with his nomadic flock , converting many of them , and keeping peace between the different tribes and the roman imperial authorities .
