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Ignatius of Constantinople
9th century Patriarch of Constantinople
Feast: 23 October (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Ignatius, son of Emperor Michael I, was mutilated and confined to a monastery as a boy when his father was deposed. There he embraced religious life and became an abbot, and in 847 was made Patriarch of Constantinople.
He refused to help the young emperor force his mother into a convent, and was deposed and replaced by Photius, suffering long persecution before his restoration. He died on 23 October 877.
The miracles
The Catholic Encyclopedia does not describe how he came to be honoured as a saint.
Why that counted as sanctity
A patriarch who suffered for refusing an injustice.
Connected on this site
- Saint Paul of Xeropotamou Saint Brother or sister
- Boris I of Bulgaria Saint“The Iconoclast Controversy was ongoing, Boris I of Bulgaria converted to Christianity in 864, and the Roman pontiffs repeatedly challenged the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Eastern Church in Bulgaria.” — Wikipedia
- Catholic Encyclopedia (1913), via New Advent - St. Ignatius of Constantinople
- Wikidata Q359824 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Ignatios of Constantinople (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.