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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
Sex
male1
Floruit
709-7231
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.
Status: incomplete
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Works Cited
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- 1 Jean Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques (Princeton, N.J.: The Darwin Press, Inc., 2004), entry: 139.
- 3 Alb van Roey, La lettre apologétique d'Élie à Léon, syncelle de l'évêque chalcédonien
de Harran; une apologie monophysite du VIIIe-IXe siècle (Louvain, 1944)., : 57 (1944), 1-52.
- 4 , A. van Roey and, Eliae epistula apologetica ad Leonem, syncellum Harranensem, Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, vol. 469 (Lovanii: In Aedibus E. Peeters, 1985)
- 5 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [= Bibliotheca sanctorum
orientalium] (Roma: Città nuova, 1998)., : I, 752.
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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Elijah.”, edited by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent and David A. Michelson. Vol. 1 of Gateway to the Syriac Saints, edited by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/1220.About this Entry
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