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Ignatios Glabas

14th Century Greek Orthodox bishop

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionAug 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ21808597 ↗
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Ignatios Glabas (Greek: Ἰγνάτιος Γλαβᾶς) was the metropolitan bishop of Thessalonica between 1336 and 1341. He was also a contemporary of Nikephoros Gregoras.

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Trapp, Erich; Beyer, Hans-Veit; Walther, Rainer; Sturm-Schnabl, Katja; Kislinger, Ewald; Leontiadis, Ioannis; Kaplaneres, Sokrates (1976–1996). Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit (in German). Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. ISBN 3-7001-3003-1.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ignatios Glabas” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.