Ioannes 240 was nicknamed Katasambas (ὁ Κατασαμβάς): Acta Davidis, Symeonis et Georgii 245, 17; and Kakosambas (ὁ Κακοσαμβάς): Petrus, Vita Ioannicii 69-70. Katasambas is probably the correct form of his name and Kakosambas a pejorative transformation used by Petrus, the author of the Vita Ioannicii, who was reflecting a hostile tradition. In 842 Ioannes 240, together with Symeon 13, Methodios 1 and Ioannikios 2, opposed the plan of the empress Theodora 2 to rehabilitate her late husband, the emperor Theophilos 5: Acta Davidis, Symeonis et Georgii 245, 17. He was associated with the Stoudite monks under Athanasios 8 and Naukratios 1 and shared the ill-will which St Ioannikios (Ioannikios 2) had towards them; when he was proposed as a possible patriarch (Ἰωάννην τὸν λεγόμενον Κακοσαμβάν), Ioannikios 2 rejected him in favour of Methodios 1 (he rejected τοὺς ῥηθέντας Στουδίτας καὶ τὸν σὺν αὐτοῖς Ἰωάννην); after Methodios 1 became patriarch it was the Stoudites and Ioannes 240 (τὸν σὺν αὐτοῖς Κακοσαμβάν) who are said to have brought confusion to the church with false charges against Methodios 1: Petrus, Vita Ioannicii 69. He was included with the Stoudites, Ignatios 6 and Anonymus 565 in a list of persons with whom Ioannikios advised the patriarch Methodios, during their conversation in 846, to have nothing to do: Petrus. Vita Ioannicii 70 (τῶν μυσαρωτάτων Στουδίτων τοῦ τε σὺν αὐτοῖς Κακοσαμβᾶ).

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