ANTIOCO, bishop of TOLEMAIDE (Phoenicia). - A celebrated orator, called by some “Chrysostom.” Having become a friend of Severiano di Gabala and of other opponents of s. Giovanni Crisostomo, bishop of Constantinople, he was one of the most vehement accusers against him at the conciliabulum ad Quercum (403). When Chrysostom returned from his first exile, A. persistently continued to oppose him and headed the delegation which requested and obtained from the emperor Arcadio his second exile (20 June 404). A. vainly attempted to obtain the approval of Pope Innocenzo I. After the death of the Antiochene patriarch Flaviano, A. consecrated Porfirio, known for his hostility towards Chrysostom. He died no later than the beginning of 408.
Many contemporaries passed a very severe judgment on A. Some of his works, however, were honourably cited by the Council of Chalcedon (Mansi, VII, 469), by Teodoreto (Eranistes, II: PG 83, 205), by s. Cirillo di Alessandria (De recta fide ad reginas, I, 10: PG 76, 1213), and by Leonzio di Bianzio (Rerum sacrarum, II: PG 86, 2044). This is all that remains of his works. Gennadio (De viris illustribus, 20) also records an Adversus avaritiam and a homily In curatione caesi, now lost.