ANATOLIUS, Patriarch of CONSTANTINOPLE. - B. at Alexandria, d. 3 July 458. The Patriarch Dioscorus raised him to the Constantinopolitan see, which he occupied from December 449 until 3 July 458. At the Council of Constantinople (21 Oct. 450), in the presence of four legates of the Pope, he subscribed to the papal Letter to Flavian, known as *Leo’s Tome*. (For a Syriac fragment of the lost acts of the Council cf. P. Mouterde, in *Miscellanea dell’Università di Beirut*, 15 (1930), pp. 33-50; and for *Leo’s Tome* cf. *Leonis Epist.*, 80, 85; PL 54, 912-922). At the Council of Chalcedon, which convened immediately afterwards (Oct. 451), he approved the deposition of Dioscorus; he took part in the commission that drafted the Council’s definitive creed; approved the famous 28th canon on the privileges of the see of Constantinople; and personally wrote to the Pope requesting its confirmation (*Epistola ad Leonem*, 4: PL 54, 984 A). It is known, however, that his efforts, like those of the Council Fathers and the Emperor in the same matter, were in vain (v. CHALCEDON).
After the Council of Chalcedon, A.’s relations with Pope Leo were rather strained. Having deposed the archdeacon Eutychius in order to replace him with a certain Andrew, suspected of Eutychianism, the Pope reproved him and ordered—and obtained—that Eutychius be reinstated in his office. The matter of the two Eutychian priests, Atticus and Andrew, was the subject of negotiations between Leo and A. when the latter died. While A.’s commendable zeal in upholding Chalcedonian orthodoxy against the Monophysites of Egypt earned him the Pope’s congratulations and exhortations to vigilance, it is certain that St Leo had only moderate trust in him. The Byzantines have venerated him as a saint and at the same time as a martyr, and celebrate his feast on 3 July.
