The life of St Anatolios of Constantinople
It was through Dioscorus's influence, following the deposition of Patriarch Flavian at a council later remembered as the Robber Synod, that Anatolius was elevated to the patriarchal throne of Constantinople in 449, a beginning that left him under lasting suspicion of sympathy for the very heresy Dioscorus favored.
Once consecrated, however, Anatolius publicly condemned the teachings of both Eutyches and Nestorius, and in 451, some two years later, presided, alongside the legates of Pope Leo, at the Fourth Ecumenical Council held at Chalcedon, which affirmed that Christ is known in two natures, divine and human, united without confusion or division. His conduct at Chalcedon won him lasting honor in the Church even among those who had once distrusted his rise, though some ancient critics continued afterward to question his earlier dealings with Dioscorus. He governed the see of Constantinople until his death in 458, which some accounts attribute to the hostility of Dioscorus's remaining followers.
