EULOGIO D'ALESSANDRA, PATRIARCA

EULOGIUS of ALEXANDRIA, patriarch. - Reigned from 580 to 607. Correspondent of Gregory the Great. Opponent of the Novatians and Monophysites.

Only fragments of his writings have been preserved (PG 86, 2; cf. Pozio, Bibl. 182, 208, 225, 226, 227, 230) and ten fragments in the Documenta Patrum de Incarnatione Verbi (ed. F. Dickamp, Münster 1907). The authenticity of other fragments is debated.

BIBL.: F. Dickamp, s. V. in LTHK. IV, cols. 848-49; B. Altaner, Patrologia, 3rd ed., Turin 1944, p. 360, no. 497. Erik Peterson.