Ignatios of Constantinople, Byzantine patriarch (born 797)

Ignatios of Constantinople

Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 847 to 858 and from 867 to 877

Ignatius of Constantinople was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 847 to 858 and from 867 to 877. Ignatius lived during a complex time for the Byzantine Empire. The Iconoclast Controversy was ongoing, Boris I of Bulgaria converted to Christianity in 864, and the…