Syriac bishop (-1049)
d. 6 May 1049
65th Catholicos of the East (Seleucia-Ctesiphon) · 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.