Panteugenos, Soterichos

   Theologian who was condemned in 1157 for his views on the Eucharist; patriarch-designate of Antioch (q.v.) and a deacon of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople (qq.v.). He was attacked in 1156 by Nicholas of Methone, theologian and supporter of Manuel I Komnenos (q.v.), for supporting the view that it was to the Father alone (not to the entire Trinity) that the Eucharist was offered. This view had been condemned at a synod in Constantinople earlier that same year. Manuel I called a new council in 1157 that condemned Panteugenos and cast Manuel in the role of defender of Orthodoxy (q.v.).