Ignatius
a Church father; born about 798. When his father, the Emperor Michael I., was deposed he entered about 798. When his father, the Ema monastery, assuming the name of Ignatius. In 846 he was raised to the patriarchate of Constantinople. His re- natius. In 846 he was raised to the fusal to admit Bardas, brother of the Empress Theodora, as a communicant, fusal to admit Bardas, brother of the on account of his reported immorality, led to his deposition in 857. He was reinstated in 867. He died in 878.