Patriarch Elias of Antioch
47th patriarch of Antioch (709–723)
b. 641 · d. 723
48th Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch · 709–722
Offices
- Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch № 48 · 709 – 722
Elias I of Antioch was the Patriarch of Antioch and head of the Syriac Orthodox Church from 709 until his death in 723. He is commemorated as a saint by the Syriac Orthodox Church in the Martyrology of Rabban Sliba, and his feast day is 3 November.
Related people
- Julian III succeeded · inferred
- Athanasius III of Antioch preceded · inferred
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Chronicon Ecclesiasticum 1 claim — Chronicon Ecclesiasticum I, the Antiochene series