Elias of Córdoba

Hieromartyr Elias of Córdoba (Elias) was a priest at Córdoba in Spain, born at Beja in Portugal, and was executed in old age by the Moors on 17 April 856, together with the young monks Paul and Isidore, two of his disciples. The Roman Martyrology commemorates him on 17 April; according to the Great Synaxaristes (Megas Synaxaristes), the Orthodox Church commemorates them on 30 April.

He is counted among the martyrs of Córdoba of those years, killed for publicly confessing the Christian faith under the Muslim rule of the emir Muhammad I. The sources at hand give no other details of his life.