Ignatios 20 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | M IX |
Dates | 866 (tpq) / 867 (taq) |
Locations | Lophoi (Bithynia); Lophoi (Bithynia) (officeplace) |
Textual Sources | Photius, Epistulae, ed. B. Laourdas and L. G. Westerink, 3 vols. (Leipzig, 1983-85) (letters) |
Ignatios 20 was bishop of Lophoi (in Bithynia); he was the addressee of two letters from the patriarch Photius (Photios 1), both probably written between May 866 and September 867: Photius, Epp. 23, 70 (I 74, 113ff. Laourdas-Westerink) (both addressed Ἰγνατίῳ ἐπισκόπῳ Λόφων). He had been consecrated as bishop by Photios 1, but now Photios 1 regretted that he had done so and threatened to excommunicate him because of his actions which Photios 1 considered wrong but Ignatios 20 did not: Photius, Ep. 23. Ignatios 20 was upset by Photios 1's rebuke and Photios 1 wrote regretting the necessity and hoping for a reconciliation: Photius, Ep. 70.
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