ANANIAS, a Christian of Damascus who was commanded in a vision to go and visit the newly converted Saul of Tarsus. (See Acts ix. 10; xxii. 12.)
Tradition represents Ananias as the first that published the Gospel in Damascus, over which place he was subsequently made bishop; but having roused, by his zeal, the hatred of the Jews, he was seized by them, scourged, and finally stoned to death in his own church.