ANDRONICO of ALESSANDRIA. – Monophysite patriarch (617–22), who succeeded Anastasio when the discord among the Monophysite Churches had been resolved. The departure of the Byzantines from Alexandria, following the advance of the Persians, enabled him to be the first to enter the city, where the Melkite or imperial party, supporter of the dogma of Chalcedon, held sway. His biographer praises him for having cast down many sanctuaries of paganism, which still persisted in the Nile valley. He died in 622, when Egypt was under the Persians.
BIBL.: Michele il Siro, Chronicon, ed. Chabod, II, Parigi 1904, p. 411; A. J. Butler, The Arab Conquest, Oxford 1902, pp. 499–501, 505; J. Maspero, Histoire des Patriarches d'Alexandrie, Parigi 1923, passim. Mario Scaduto