Elias of Jerusalem
Patriarch of Jerusalem
b. 5th century · d. c. 518
44th Bishop of Jerusalem (Patriarch)
Offices
Elias of Jerusalem was a bishop and Patriarch of Jerusalem from 494 until he was deposed by Byzantine Emperor Anastasius I in 516 for supporting the decrees of the Council of Chalcedon. Elias was an Arab, by birth, who had been educated in a monastery in Egypt. At the Synod of Sidon (512) he successfully defended, together with Flavian II of Antioch, the dyophysite Christological doctrine proclaimed by the Council of Chalcedon. Elias, together with Flavian II of Antioch, is commemorated on July 20 in the Eastern Orthodox Church and July 4 in the Roman Martyrology.
Related people
- John III of Jerusalem preceded · inferred
Commemorated
Places
- Aqaba death
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Oriens Christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus 1 claim — Oriens Christianus III, col. 101 sqq. — De Patriarchatu Hierosolymitano