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The virgin St. Euphemia and her companions in the early 4th century; the cathedral of Chalcedon was consecrated to her.
The Byzantines allowed these freedom and archbishop Elias, already called patriarch by his suffragans, built a cathedral under the patronage of St. Euphemia as an unabashed statement of his adherence to the schism since it was the church of St. Euphemia in which the sessions of the Council of Chalcedon were approved.