Helias

Holy Hierarch Helias (Helios, Helius or Aelius) was the fourth bishop of Lyon, in the first half of the third century.

Very little is known of his life. He succeeded Saint Zacharias of Lyon in the see. Saint Gregory of Tours relates in his book on the confessors that when a thief opened his tomb to strip his body, the one who had fallen asleep seized the thief and held him until justice arrived; Gregory knew the place of his burial, in the crypt. His name, like those of most of the first bishops of Lyon, is Greek.

He is honoured as a saint of the undivided Church in both the Orthodox and the Catholic Church, with no synodal canonization shown by the sources.