Philoxenus the Scribe
(d. 1421)
Philoxenus was ordained a metropolitan and then consecrated Patriarch of Antioch in 1387 at the Kwaykhat Monastery. He is the second patriarch by this name. He resided in al-Sham (Syria) and died in 1421. The writer who continued Bar Hebraeus’s Ecclesiastical History praised him greatly. He stated, “Philoxenus was an excellent writer and a competent doctor in both religious and secular sciences. He is only matched by the priest Isaiah of Basibrina.”521 However, we have discovered none of his writings.