Ignatios 8

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitM/L IX?
ReligionChristian
Textual SourcesMartyres XLII Amorienses (BHG 1209), ed. B. Vasilievskii and P. Nikitin, Mémoires de l'Académie imp. de Saint-Pétersbourg, 8th series, 7.2 (1905), pp. 38-56 (hagiography);
Martyres XLII Amorienses (BHG 1210), ed. B. Vasilievskij and P. Nikitin, Mémoires de l' Académie imp. de Saint-Pétersbourg, 8th series, 7. 2 (1905), pp. 38-56 (hagiography);
Martyres XLII Amorienses (BHG 1211) (ed. B. Vasilievskij and P. Nikitin, Mémoires de l' Académie imp. de Saint-Pétersbourg, 8th series, 7.2 (1905), 1-7; ed. Latyshev, Menologium I 190-97 (hagiography);
Martyres XLII Amorienses (BHG 1212), ed. B. Vasilievskij and P. Nikitin, Mémoires de l' Académie imp. de Saint-Pétersbourg, 8th series, 7.2 (1905), pp. 8-21 (hagiography);
Martyres XLII Amorienses (BHG 1213) (ed. B. Vasilievskij and P. Nikitin, Mémoires de l' Académie imp. de Saint-Pétersbourg, 8th series, 7.2 (1905), pp. 22-36 (hagiography);
Martyres XLII Amorienses (BHG 1214) (ed. B. Vasilievskij and P. Nikitin, Mémoires de l' Académie imp. de Saint-Pétersbourg, 8th series, 7. 2 (1905), pp. 61-78 (hagiography)

Ignatios 8 was the author of a Kanon in honour of the Forty-Two Martyrs of Amorion: Mart. XLII Amor., ed. Vasilievskij and Nikitin, p. 80, line 44 (Εἰς τὸν ὄρθρον: ὁ Κανών: Ἰγνατίου). Possibly identical with the former deacon of Constantinople, later metropolitan of Nikaia, Ignatios 9. If Ignatios 8 is not identical with Ignatios 9, his date is uncertain. The Martyrs were executed in 845; several versions of their fate were composed soon afterwards and the canon is based on these. Possibly therefore the date was some time later in the ninth century. On the question of identification, see Ignatios 9.

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