{{seealso|Acathius I of Melitene}} thumb | right | alt=Acathius of Melitene | Acathius of Melitene '''Acacius II of Melitene''' (? - after 437) was metropolitan bishop of Melitene. He was an opponent of Nestorius and close ally of Cyril of Alexandria at the Council of Ephesus of 431. He delivered a homily at Ephesus and wrote two letters to Cyril. Cyril in turn wrote two letters to Acacius.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Alexandria |first=Saint Cyril of |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IxH80B3R_UQC&dq=acacius+of+melitene&pg=PA65 |title=Letters 51–110 (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 77) |date=April 2010 |publisher=CUA Press |isbn=978-0-8132-1177-0 |language=en}}</ref> Melitene was a town in Eastern Anatolia.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Philip Schaff: New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Vol. I: Aachen - Basilians - Christian Classics Ethereal Library |url=https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc01.html?term=Acacius%20of%20Melitene |access-date=2024-09-27 |website=www.ccel.org}}</ref>
His successor was Constantine of Melitene. He would have been a young bishop at the time of the Second Council of Ephesus.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Menze |first=Volker-Lorenz |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P9mzEAAAQBAJ&dq=acacius+of+melitene&pg=PA106 |title=Patriarch Dioscorus of Alexandria: The Last Pharaoh and Ecclesiastical Politics in the Later Roman Empire |date=2023 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-287133-6 |language=en}}</ref>
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