Saint Theophanes the Chronographer

Also known as

• Theophanus the Confessor

Memorial

• 12 March (Roman calendar)
• 25 March (Orthodox calendar)

Profile

Educated at the Byzantine imperial court. Married layman. Both he and his wife entered religious life. Founded two monasteries. Abbot at Mount Migniana abbey. Wrote a Chronography, a sort of abstract of history from 284 to 813. Arrested, tortured, and exiled to Samothrace by Leo the Armenian for opposing iconoclasm.

Born

• Constantinople

Died

• 12 March 817 of natural causes

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
• Wikipedia

MLA Citation

• “Saint Theophanes the Chronographer“. Saints.SQPN.com. 11 March 2013. Web. 25 May 2013. <>