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After Dionysius became bishop of Alexandria, in 247, a certain Theognostus succeeded him as head of the catechetical school. He is known only for his Outlines, a treatise in seven books which was known to Photius in the ninth century but survives today only in brief fragments, partly because Eusebius made no mention of him in the Church History. These fragments reveal that Theognostus was a rather speculative theologian who perpetuated the teaching of Origen.