Anatolios Patriarch of Constantinople

Description

Saint Anatolius became Patriarch of Constantinople, two months after the unjust murder of Patriarch Flavian (see February 16), on August 11, 449 AD, by the heretic Dioscorus and his associates.
Anatolios was born in Alexandria and was ordained a deacon by the then archbishop of Alexandria Cyril (see June 9 and January 18). The heretical Patriarch of Alexandria, Dioscorus, supported the election of Anatolius, with the hope that he would have him as his subordinate. But it was denied. Anatolios emerged as a faithful and courageous defender of Orthodoxy.During the patriarchate of Agios Anatolios, in 451 AD the Fourth Ecumenical Synod was convened in Chalcedon, which condemned the heresy of Eutychus. Also, Dioskouros was deposed and the name of Saint Flavianos, Patriarch of Constantinople, whom Dioskouros had deposed during the Lystra Council of Ephesus in 449 AD, was added to the diptychs.Also during Anatolia’s reign, the relics of the Forty Saints, who were martyred in Sebastia (March 3. During his patriarchate again, Queen Pulcheria (see February 17), built in AD 450 the magnificent temples of the Theotokos of Chalcoprateia, were recovered in Constantinople. , of Blacherna and Odigetria.Patriarch Anatolios died in July 458 AD, after having greatly benefited the faith and the Church.