IGNATIUS

(d. c. 117 A.D.), one of Apostolic Fathers (q.v.). Though so famous, very little known of him. His epistles are preserved in three recensions, and controversy has raged over the complicated literary problem they present. I. contains seven epistles preserved in Greek, also Latin, Armenian, Syriac, and Coptic versions; IT. contains these seven and six others, Gk., and Lat. version; III. (discovered by Cureton, 1845), three of first seven, preserved in Syriac. The controversy over the claims of I. and II. to be the original was mostly theological. Scholars mostly now recognize Il. as original and III. as shortened from it. | Ignatious defends Episcopacy and protests against Docetism and Judaising tendencies in Church. arch of Constantinople, was the son of Michael I., Emperor of tha East. He was compelled to enter a monastery, whence he rose to the patriarchate through the favor of the Empre The odor a. He was an opponent of the iconoclasts. The influence of his brother Bardas, whom he had ex-communicated led to his being forced to abdicate in 866, but he was restored in the following year.