Theognostus

TEOGNOSTO. – Archimandrite, most faithful friend of the patriarch St. Ignatius of Constantinople; he brought Pope Nicholas I a written defense (libellus) of his patriarch in 862 and remained in Rome until 868.

He left a panegyric on the Saints and a homily on the Dormition (Assumption) of Mary Most Holy. He probably died at the end of the ninth century.

BIBL.: PG 105, pp. 849–62; M. Jugie, Théognos, in DThC, XV, pp. 337–38; the homily on the Dormition of Mary Most Holy was edited by M. Jugie in PO XIV, 457–62. Giorgio Hofmann
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“TEOGNOSTO.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI (1953), p. 1178. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/teognosto.