Eulogius of Alexandria, Patriarch

EULOGIO OF ALEXANDRIA, patriarch. – In office 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. Photius, Bibl. 182, 208, 225, 226, 227, 230) and ten fragments in the Doctrina Patrum de Incarnatione Verbi (ed. F. Dickamp, Münster 1907). The authenticity of other fragments is disputed.

BIBL.: F. Dickamp, s. v., in LThK, IV, cols. 828–49; B. Altaner, Patrologia, 3rd ed., Turin 1944, p. 360, n. 401. Erik Peterson
Cite this article

“EULOGIO D'ALESSANDRIA, PATRIARCA.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V (1950), p. 490. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/eulogio-d-alessandria-patriarca.