Eliya III Abu Halim (Syriac: ܐܠܝܐ) was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1176 to 1190.
[1] Brief accounts of Eliya's patriarchate are given in the Ecclesiastical Chronicle of the Jacobite writer Bar Hebraeus (fl.
This man composed Arabic homilies for Sunday feasts in admirable and polished language.
He was a man of perfect stature, in the prime of life, modest and liberal, rich in ecclesiastical knowledge, and extremely well versed in the language of the Saracens, as is testified by his commentary in which he beautifully describes both the Jacobite and Nestorian feasts celebrated in the East.
He was born in the city of Maiperqat, and was first consecrated a bishop, then metropolitan of Nisibis, and finally catholicus.