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Athenogenes was the bishop of Petra and metropolitan of the province of Palaestina Tertia at the end of the sixth century.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn He is the last known bishop of Petra before the Muslim conquest of Palestine, when the bishopric fell into abeyance and Petra itself drops out of the historical record.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Athenogenes had a Greek name.[1] He was the son of the holy woman Amma Damiana and one of his grandmothers was named Iannia. John Moschus, a contemporary writing probably after 604, in his Pratum spirituale quotes Damiana referring to her niece as "the most faithful Emperor Maurice's" niece also.Шаблон:Sfn Paul Goubert interpreted this passage as saying that Damiana was a sister of Maurice and Athenogenes his nephew.Шаблон:Sfn Ernest Honigmann argues that she was more likely a sister-in-law of one of Maurice's siblings, making Athenogenes a cousin of the emperor's niece but not a blood relative of the emperor. If this is correct, he may have been a cousin of Domitian of Melitene.Шаблон:Sfn

Moschus refers to Athenogenes with the title abba (abbot).Шаблон:Sfn According to Moschus, who derived his report from an old monk named Athanasius, who had visited Athenogenes, there was at that time a stylite in the diocese of Petra who practised an extreme form of asceticism. He did not possess a ladder and did not allow visitors to ascend his pillar. They were required to shout from some distance and only permitted to even approach the base of the pillar to discuss personal matters.Шаблон:Sfn[2]

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  1. Шаблон:Harvnb, in discussing Maurice's possible Armenian ancestry, shows that his family members all bore Greek or Latin names, although the rare name Athenogenes was born by a grandson of the Armenian Gregory the Illuminator. The province of Palaestina Tertia was Greek and Arabic speaking.
  2. Шаблон:Harvnb, refers to Athenogenes himself as the stylite.