Julian (Chalcedonian patriarch of Antioch)

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Julian, sometimes numbered Julian I,[1] was the patriarch of Antioch for about five years from 471 until 475 or 476. He was a Chalcedonian and a "fairly well-known person".[2] His election as patriarch at a synod in Antioch was arranged by the Emperor Leo I on the advice of Patriarch Gennadius of Constantinople to replace the Miaphysite patriarch Peter the Fuller, who was exiled by Leo on 1 June 471.[2][3]

Julian held the patriarchate through the remainder of the reign of Leo I and that of Leo II.[3] In the unrest that followed Leo II's death, the Miaphysite Basiliscus seized the imperial throne and restored Peter the Fuller to the patriarchate.[2] When Peter arrived in Antioch, Julian was so upset that he died "of vexation", according to Theodorus Lector.[3]

Julian may the Julian who commissioned the treatise Against the Aposchists (i.e., schismatics, the Miaphysites) from John of Scythopolis, but it is more likely that was the Julian in question.[2]

Notes[]

  1. ^ See the list of patriarchs on pp. 1631–1632 in Oliver Nicholson (ed.), The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity, Vol. 2 (Oxford University Press, 2018).
  2. ^ a b c d Paul Rorem and John C. Lamoreaux, John of Scythopolis and the Dionysian Corpus: Annotating the Areopagite (Oxford: Clarendon, 1998), pp. 30–31.
  3. ^ a b c Glanville Downey, A History of Antioch in Syria from Seleucus to the Arab Conquest (Princeton University Press, 1961), pp. 487–488.
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