Eliya I
Syriac bishop (-1049)
d. 6 May 1049
65th Catholicos of the East (Seleucia-Ctesiphon) · c. 1028–c. 1049
Offices
- Catholicos of the East (Seleucia-Ctesiphon) № 65 · c. 1028 – c. 1049
Eliya I was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1028 to 1049. He is also known as the author of an early grammar of Syriac written around the year 1000.
Related people
- Ishoyahb IV succeeded · inferred
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Maris, Amri et Slibae De Patriarchis Nestorianorum Commentaria (the Book of the Tower) 1 claim — Maris, De Patriarchis Nestorianorum Commentaria (ed. Gismondi)