Patriarch Anatolius of Constantinople

Anatolius ( July 3 † 458 ) was Patriarch of Constantinople Opel.

Anatolius was from Alexandria. At first he was a priest and apocrisiary under the Patriarch Dioscorus I of Alexandria active, still adhered to the teachings of Eutyches, which was condemned by the Council of Chalcedon. Anatolius obtained in December 449, the Office of the Archbishop of Constantinople Opel and he was 451 significantly involved in the decisions of the Council of Chalcedon as representatives of the Orthodox teacher and opponent of the Monophysites and Nestorians. In Chalcedon the rise in rank of Constantinople, the Patriarchate was decided with Primal on Antioch and Alexandria in the 28th canon, so that Anatolius first Patriarch of Constantinople Opel was. But that began at the same time an ongoing dispute with the bishops of Rome, the supremacy of Constantinople over the other patriarchates of the East nor recognized as the equal of the Patriarch of Rome. His espousal of the Eastern Roman Empire is reflected among other things in that he Leo I. crowned Emperor in February 457; this was the first time that at this ceremony, the Patriarch of Constantinople Opel participated.

Anatolius also the compilation of a number of Greek hymns is attributed.