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After his consecration, being under suspicion of Eutychianism (Leo, Epp. ad. Theod. 33 ad Pulch. 35), he publicly condemned the teachings not only of Eutyches, but also of Nestorius, subscribing to the letters of Cyril against Nestorius and of Pope Leo I against Eutyches (Leo, Epp. 40, 41, 48). In conjunction with Pope Leo, according to Zonaras (Annals iii), he requested the emperor Marcian to summon a general council against Dioscorus and the Eutychians, but the imperial letter instructing Anatolius in the preparations for the Council of Chalcedon only mentions Leo (Labbe, Conc. Max. Tom. iv.). In this council Anatolius presided in conjunction with the Roman legates (Labbe, Conc. Max. iv.; Evagr. H. E. ii. 4, 18; Niceph. H. E. xv. 18). By the famous 28th canon, passed at the conclusion of the council, Constantinople was made equal in dignity with Rome (Labbe, iv. 796; Evagr. ii. 18). Hence arose the controversy between Anatolius and the Roman pontiff. Leo complained to Marcian (Ep. 54) and to Pulcheria (Ep. 55) that Anatolius had outstepped his jurisdiction by consecrating Maximinus II as Patriarch of AntiochIn the history of Christianity, Patriarch of Antioch was the title carried by the Bishop of Antioch one of the few dioceses that preserve historical names of its bishops form the apostolic beginnings. External link Antioch, Church of. Full history See als, as well as protesting to Anatolius (Ep. 53).

Following the council of Chalcedon Anatolius received a letter signed by several Egyptian bishops, asking his assistance against Timothy , who was usurping the Patriarch of AlexandriaThe Patriarch of Alexandria is the bishop of Alexandria, Egypt. Historically, this office has held the title of Pope, and did so before it was bestowed upon the Pope of Rome. Bestowing the title on Rome's patriarch did not strip it from Alexandria's. (Labbe, Conc. Max. iv. iii. 23, p. 897), as a result Anatolius wrote to the emperor Leo against Timothy (Labbe, iii. 26, p. 905). The circular of the emperor requesting the advice of Anatolius on the turbulent state of AlexandriaLocated on the Mediterranean Sea coast, Alexandria (in Arabic, al-iskandariyyah is the chief seaport in Egypt, and that country's second largest city, and the capital of the Al Iskandariyah governate. It is located at 31°12'N, 29°15'E, 208 km (129 miles) is given by EvagriusEvagrius Scholasticus an ecclesiastical historian, who wrote six books, embracing a period of 163 years, from the second Council of Ephesus AD 431 to the 12th year of the emperor Maurice I, AD 594. He was born at Epiphania in Coelesyria in either 536 or 5 (H. E. ii. 9), and by NicephorusNicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos of Constantinople, the last of the Greek ecclesiastical historians, flourished around 1320. His Historia Ecclesiastica in eighteen books, brings the narrative down to 610; for the first four centuries the author is largel (H. E. xv. 18). Edward GibbonEdward Gibbon ( April 27, 1737 ( O. May 8, 1737 ( N. January 16, 1794) was an English historian, author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire a groundbreaking work. He was born in Putney, near London, England into a relatively well-to states that the crowning of Leo on his accession by Anatolius is the first instance of the kind on record ( TheophanesTheophanes (died 817 or 818) was a Byzantine monk and chronicler. He was born in the 750s of iconodule aristocratic parents, but was orphaned at an early age, and the emperor Constantine V saw to his education and upbringing. His chronicle preserves a vib, Chronicle p. 95). The followers of Dioscurus are said to have killed him in 458.

He was credited for putting forward a Greek system of hymn.

• This article uses text from A Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the Principal Sects and Heresies by Henry Wace. [1]