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In hagiography: Elijah was the Syrian Orthodox bishop of Antioch and a convert from the Melkite community. He was a monk from the monastery of Gubba Barraya. He was bishop of Apamea and later Patriarch of Antioch. He was esteemed by Caliph Al-Walid I who allowed him to build a church.

Names

  • Elijah
  • ÉLIE1

Floruit

709-723

Sex

male1

Notes

In hagiography: Elijah was the Syrian Orthodox bishop of Antioch and a convert from the Melkite community. He was a monk from the monastery of Gubba Barraya. He was bishop of Apamea and later Patriarch of Antioch. He was esteemed by Caliph Al-Walid I who allowed him to build a church.
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  • 1 Jean-Maurice Fiey,Saints Syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 139.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 3 Albert van Roey,La Lettre Apologétique d’Élie à Léon, Syncelle de l’évêque Chalcédonien de Harran,Le Muséon 57 (1944): 1–52, p: 1-52.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 4 Albert van Roey,Eliae Epistula Apologetica Ad Leonem, Syncellum Harranensem, 2 vols., CSCO 469-470, Syr. 201-202 (Leuven: Peeters, 1985)Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 5 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [=  Bibliotheca sanctorum orientalium], 2 vols. (Roma: Città nuova, 1998), vol: I, p: 752.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record

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