Leontius of Jerusalem

Leontius of Jerusalem (Greek: Λεόντιος, ca.485 - ca.543, though debated) was a Byzantine Christian theologian, monk and proponent of the Council of Chalcedon.

Virtually all of Egypt and much of Palestine and Syria had rejected Chalcedon (451). By the 530s this reached a breaking point with the risk of schism - as eventually happened, with Oriental Orthodoxy being descended of those who rejected the council. Leontius involved himself in trying to convince anti-Chalcedonians of the validity of Chalcedonian Christology.

He is known only from two of his works:

  • Contra Monophysitas (Against the Monophysites)
  • Contra Nestorianos (Against the Nestorians)
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