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Anastasius I the Sinaite was the Greek Patriarch of Antioch twice (561–571 and 593–599).He was a friend of Pope Gregory I and aroused the enmity of the Emperor Justinian by opposing certain imperial doctrines about the Body of Christ (Justinian favoured the Aphthartodocetae). He was to be deposed from his See and exiled when Justinian died; but Justin II carried out his uncle’s purpose five years later in 570 and another bishop Gregory of Antioch was put in his place.