Ignatios 17 was hegoumenos of the monastery of Chrysopolis and was the addressee of a letter from the patriarch Photius (Photios 1); the letter, of uncertain date, is theological in character: Photius, Ep. 78 (I 120 Laourdas-Westerink) (addressed Ἰγνατίῳ ἡγουμένῳ μονῆς τῆς ἐν Χρυσοπόλει). The monastery of Chrysopolis was probably that of Philippikos, cf. Janin, Centres, pp. 24ff. If this was Ignatios 17's monastery, he was perhaps the successor of Niketas 163, who was removed as a supporter of Ignatios 1 in c. 865, and the letter may therefore have been written sometime between 865 and 870.

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