Alexander of Apamea

{{short description|5th-century Bishop of Apamea}}

Alexander (Gr. {{lang|grc|Ἀλέξανδρος}}) was a bishop of Apamea in Syria in the 5th century AD. He was one of a number of moderate Eastern bishops during the Nestorian controversy, and one of the eight bishops deputed by the party of John of Antioch to the Emperor Theodosius II.{{CathEncy|wstitle=Alexander (Early Bishops)}} Alexander was sent with his namesake, Alexander of Hierapolis, by John of Antioch to the Council of Ephesus in 431.{{cite encyclopedia|last=Christie |first=Albany James |authorlink=Albany James Christie |title=Alexander |editor=William Smith |encyclopedia=Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology |volume=1 |pages=112 |publisher=Little, Brown and Company |location=Boston |year=1867 |url=http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0121.html |url-status=usurped |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070405210127/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0121.html |archivedate=2007-04-05 }} The Alexanders brought word that John had not yet arrived in Ephesus and that the council should start without him.{{CathEncy|wstitle=Robber Council of Ephesus}}

A letter by Alexander is extant in Latin in the Nova Collectio Conciliorum of Étienne Baluze, p. 834. c. 132. fol, Paris, 1683.