Christophorus
Χριστοφόρος
Χριστοφόρος, (patriarch of ALEXANDRIA, about A. D. 836.
Works
τί ὁμοιοῦται ὁ Βίος οὗτος καὶ εἰς ποῖον τέλος καταστρέφει
He wrote an exhortation to asceticism under the title τί ὁμοιοῦται ὁ Βίος οὗτος καὶ εἰς ποῖον τέλος καταστρέφει There are citations from this work in Allatius, ad Eustath. Antioch. p. 254, and Cotelerius, Monum. MSta. in Bibl. Caesar. There are MSS. of the work at Vienna, Paris, Rome, Milan, and Oxford.
Editions
It was printed in Greek and Latin, with notes, by F. Morellus, Par. 1608, who mistook it for the work of Theophilus of Alexandria: Θεοφίλου Ἀλεξανδρείας λόγος, τίνι ὁμοιοῦται ἄνθρωπος (Fabricius, Bibl. Graec. vii. p. 109.)
Epistle to Theophilus
There is also a synodic epistle to the emperor Theophilus Iconomachus, by Christophorus of Alexandria, Job of Antioch, and Basil of Jerusalem, and 1455 other bishops and clergy, on images, entitled Ἐπιστολὴ πρὸς τὸν Βασιλέα Θεόφιλον περὶ τῶν ἁψίων καὶ σεπτῶν εἰκόνων, which is mentioned by Constantinus Porphyrogenitus in his Narratio de Imaag. Edess. p. 90, and by the author of a MS. Narratio de Imag. B. Virg. ap. Lambec. viii. p. 334.
The work exists in MS. in the Codex Baroccianus, 148.
Editions
It was published, in Greek and Latin, first by Combefisius in his Manipul. Rerum. Constant. Par. 1664, 4to., pp. 110-145, and afterwards by Michael le Quien in his edition of Damascenus, Par. 1712, i. p. 629.
Further Information
Nessel, Catal. Bibl. Vindobon, pt. v. p. 129; Cave, Hist. Litt. sub anno; Fabricius, Bibl. Graec. viii. p. 84, ix. p 717, xi. p. 594.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.