Elias I of Jerusalem

Elias of Jerusalem (d. c. 518) was a bishop and Patriarch of Jerusalem from 494[https://jerusalem-patriarchate.info/πατριάρχης/ἀποστολική-διαδοχή/ Jerusalem Patriarchate website, Apostolic Succession section] until he was deposed by Byzantine Emperor Anastasius I in 516 for supporting the decrees of the Council of Chalcedon.{{cite book|title=Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints |author= Margaret Bunson, Stephen Bunson|year=2003|publisher= Our Sunday Visitor|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l-pwoTFp31kC&q=%22Elias+of+Jerusalem%22&pg=PA326|isbn=1-931709-75-0}} Elias was an Arab, by birth, who had been educated in a monastery in Egypt.{{cite web |last1=Fortescue |first1=Adrian |title=Elias of Jerusalem. |url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05385a.htm |website=The Catholic Encyclopedia}} At the Synod of Sidon (512) he successfully defended, together with Flavian II of Antioch, the dyophysite Christological doctrine proclaimed by the Council of Chalcedon.{{CathEncy|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05385a.htm|title=Elias of Jerusalem}}