Elias I of Antioch

Elias I
Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East
Church	Syriac Orthodox Church
See	Antioch
Installed	709
Term ended	723
Predecessor	Julian III
Successor	Athanasius III
Personal details
Born	641
Died	3 October 723

Elias I of Antioch (Syriac:Mor Elijah) was the Patriarch of Antioch, and head of the Syriac Orthodox Church from 709 until his death in 723.

Elias was born in 641 into a Greek Orthodox family, but later converted to miaphysitism, the doctrine of the Syriac Orthodox Church, after reading the works of Severus of Antioch. He became a monk at the Monastery of Gubba Barraya, near Edessa, and was ordained as Bishop of Apamea in 691. Elias was consecrated as patriarch in 709 following the death of Julian III, and presented himself to Caliph Al-Walid I in the same year. The patriarch financed and consecrated a new church in the city of Antioch in 721, and another church in Sarmada in 722. Elias led the Syriac Orthodox Church as patriarch prior to his death in 723.

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