Timothy Aelurus

Timothy Aelurus
(d. 477)
   Patriarch and Saint.
   Timothy became Patriarch of Alexandria in Egypt in 457. His name, ‘Aelurus’, means weasel-like and may refer to his small stature. He was a Monophysite and, because he was unacceptable to many Bishops, he was banished by the Emperor Leo I in 460. Later he was recalled by the Emperor Basilicus. Several of his letters survive. He taught that Jesus was essentially God, but not essentially man; he became human by divine dispensation. At the same time he anathematised eutyches for maintaining that Jesus’s body was not really a human body. In the Coptic Church he is regarded as a saint.
   W.H.C. Frend, The Rise of the Monophysite Movement (1972).

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