Julian (Chalcedonian patriarch of Antioch)

Julian of Antioch
Patriarch of Antioch
Church	Church of Antioch
Installed	471
Term ended	475
Predecessor	Peter II of Antioch
Successor	Peter II of Antioch
Personal details
Denomination	Chalcedonian Christianity

Julian of Antioch, sometimes numbered Julian I, ^[1] was the Patriarch of Antioch for about five years from 471 until 475. 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 II of Antioch, who was exiled by Leo I 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 II 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 Julian of Bostra was the Julian in question. ^[2]

Notes and references

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. Paul Rorem and John C. Lamoreaux, John of Scythopolis and the Dionysian Corpus - Annotating the Areopagite (Oxford, Clarendon, 1998), pp. 30–31.
3. Glanville Downey, A History of Antioch in Syria from Seleucus to the Arab Conquest (Princeton University Press, 1961), pp. 487–488.

Titles of Chalcedonian Christianity
Preceded by Peter II	Patriarch of Antioch 471 – 475	Succeeded by Peter II