Elias 12 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | L VIII |
| Dates | 787 (taq) / 797 (tpq) |
| PmbZ No. | 1486 |
| Religion | Christian |
| Locations | Jerusalem (officeplace); Jerusalem |
| Titles | Archbishop, Jerusalem (office); Bishop, Jerusalem (office); Patriarch, Jerusalem (office) |
| Textual Sources | Georgius Monachus, Chronicon, ed. C. de Boor, corr. P. Wirth (Stuttgart, 1978) (chronicle); Photius, Epistulae, ed. B. Laourdas and L. G. Westerink, 3 vols. (Leipzig, 1983-85) (letters); Vita Tarasii by Ignatius the Deacon, ed. I. A. Heikel, Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae 17 (1891), pp. 395-423; new ed. S. Efthymiadis, The Life of the Patriarch Tarasios by Ignatios the Deacon, (hagiography) |
Elias 12 was patriarch of Jerusalem; in 787 he was represented at the Seventh Ecumenical Council by Ioannes 15, the synkellos of the patriarch of Antioch, who acted for the patriarchs of both Antioch and Jerusalem at the Council: Ignatios, Vita Tarasii 28. See Ioannes 15. He was patriarch of Jerusalem at the time of the Council of Nikaia, at which he and his fellow patriarchs, Apolinarios (i.e. Politianos 1) and Theodoretos 1, were represented by Ioannes 15 and Thomas 4: Photius, Ep. 1, lines 374ff. (I 13 Laourdas-Westerink).
Elias 12 was patriarch of Jerusalem by 787 until at least 797, but his tenure was interrupted at an unknown date by a Theodoros; see Grumel, Chronologie, p. 452. According to one source, his representative at the Second Council of Nikaia was Georgios 289: Georg. Mon., p. 769. Georgios 289 was his synkellos and successor as patriarch of Jerusalem: Vita Stephani Sabaitae (in AASS July III, pp. 504-584), 49, p. 524B.
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