ALEXANDER, Patriarch of Antioch. - He had spent his life practicing monastic virtues and every kind of austerity, when in 313 he succeeded Porphyrius as patriarch of Antioch. Through the holiness of his life, reinforced by an effective eloquence, he succeeded in reconciling the Eustathians, who had already since 330 been separated from the other Catholics. A. was the first to restore the name of St. John Chrysostom to the diptychs: he communicated this happy news to Innocent I and asked for his communion. The Pope replied with a letter signed by himself and by 20 bishops, and with another, wholly cordial one, from himself alone.
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