Patriarch Elias IV (Arabic: البطريرك إلياس الرابع al-Baṭriyark ʾIlyās ar-Rābiʿ; born ʾIlyās Muʿawwaḍ إلياس معوض; 1914 – June 21, 1979) was the Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch and All the East from 1970 to 1979.

Elias Mouawwad was born in 1914, in an Orthodox Christian family in modern-day Lebanon.

In 1959, he was consecrated Metropolitan of Aleppo and Alexandretta, being elected Patriarch of Antioch on September 25, 1970, succeeding Theodosius VI only six days after his death.

In February 1974, he took part in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation 2nd Summit, in Lahore, being called on occasion by King Faisal of Saudi Arabia "Patriarch of the Arabs".

[3] He consecrated with Metropolitan Ignátios Ferzli the Catedral Metropolitana Ortodoxa in São Paulo, Brazil, the following year.