NICEPHORUS, SAINT

nīsĕfˈərəs, 758?–829?, patriarch of Constantinople (806–15), Byzantine historian and theologian. St. Nicephorus attended the Second Council of Nicaea as lay representative of the emperor. His appointment by Emperor Nicephorus I to the patriarchate while he was still a layman aroused the anger of the monastic party under St. Theodore of Studium, but the quarrel was quieted. St. Nicephorus opposed iconoclasm and secured a pledge of orthodoxy from Emperor Michael I. Michael's successor, Leo V, however, insisted that the patriarch modify his views, but Nicephorus refused and was deposed and exiled. In his exile he wrote a brief narrative of Byzantine history from 602 to 769 and several tracts against iconoclasm. Feast: Mar. 13.

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The Patriarch Nicephorus of Constantinople: Ecclesiastical Policy and Image Worship in the Byzantine Empire
Book by Paul J. Alexander; Clarendon Press, 1958
Subjects: Iconoclasm, Nicephorus--Saint, Patriarch Of Constantinople
...Very little is known about Nicephorus childhood, and even his medieval...It is not clear whether Nicephorus accompanied his parents into...Ch. Diehl, Une Vie de saint de lepoque iconoclaste , Academie...p. 438, lines 2 to 26; Nicephorus, Breviarium , p. 72 . 4...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Saints
Book by David Hugh Farmer; Oxford University Press, 1997
Subjects: Christian Saints--Biography--Dictionaries, Christian Saints--Great Britain--Biography--Dictionaries, Christian Saints--Ireland--Biography--Dictionaries
...hermitage, chapel, and monastery with money donated by Nicephorus. Part of it was used to pipe water from a spring eight miles...Boll. xxv 1906 , 5-89; J. Leroy, Les deux vies de saint Athanase lAthonite, Anal. Boll ., lxxxii 1964 . 409...Mont Athos 963-7963, i 1963 , 59-100; D. Attwater, Saints of the East 1963 , pp. 101-8; Bibl . SS ., ii. 547...
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The Letters of Saint Boniface
Book by Boniface, Ephraim Emerton; Columbia University Press, 2000
Subjects: Boniface--Saint, Archbishop Of Mainz--Ca. 675-754--Correspondence
...most pious and august Lord Artavasdos, crowned by God emperor, in the third year of his consulship and the third year of Nicephorus, his son, in the thirteenth indiction. XLVII ?9. Acts of the Roman Synod of Oct. 25,745. Condem- nation of f Aldebert...
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How to Distinguish the Saints in Art by Their Costumes, Symbols, and Attributes
Book by Arthur De Bles; Art Culture, 1925
Subjects: Christian Art And Symbolism, Christian Saints--Art, Christian Saints--Attributes
...made contemporaneously. We know that such did exist, for in the case of St. Peter, the best known description, that of Nicephorus, is obviously drawn from some representation before his eyes, while in the case of St. Paul, there was a Roman lady named...
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The Legends of the Saints: With a Memoir of the Author
Book by Hippolyte Delehaye, Donald Attwater; Fordham University Press, 1962
Subjects: Christian Hagiography
...establish between themselves and their favourite saint are not always equally close. Often it is honour...simple device that the celebrated martyr St Nicephorus "of Antioch" 143 became a local saint in Istria, 144 and that St Maurus has been...
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journal articles on: Nicephorus Saint  - 3 results

 
 
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Translation, Theft, and 'Li Jeus De Saint Nicolai
Journal article by David Raybin; The Romanic Review, Vol. 85, 1994
Subjects: Drama--13th century, Hagiography--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Nicholas, Saint--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...his pleasure, and the saint does not necessarily...commonly held view that saints were too powerful to...taken unwillingly. A saint unable to prevent the...disinter the long-buried saint, "a very daring young...breaking open the saints white marble tomb to...body." Subsequently, Nicephorus recounts, Matthew conducted...
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Mirror of Experience: Palamas and Bonaventure on the Experience of God-A Contribution to Orthodox-Roman Catholic Dialogue
Journal article by Russel Murray; Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Vol. 44, 2009
Subjects: Bonaventure, Saint--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Christology--Comparative analysis, Divinity of Christ--Comparative analysis, Hesychasm--Analysis, Palamas, Gregory--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Theologians--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes
...expression, one is able discern in each saints writing a reflection of the others experience...affirmation does not imply that either saint denied that human beings have mediated...the human experience of God. For both saints, the human experience of God is the experience...of the Holy Spirit. (92) Though each saint speaks of this illumination by the Spirit...
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Imperial Ideology and Political Thought in Byzantium, 1204-1330
Journal article by Warren Treadgold; The Historian, Vol. 71, 2009
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Imperial Ideology and Political Thought in Byzantium, 1204-1330 (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
...scholars, Angelov stresses how original Nicephorus Gregoras and George of Pelagonia were...contemporary emperors, and how innovative Nicephorus Blemmydes and Thomas Magistrus were...political philosophy. Warren Treadgold Saint Louis University


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magazine articles on: Nicephorus Saint  - 1 result

 
 
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The Persistence of Byzantium
Magazine article by Warren Treadgold; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 22, Autumn 1998
Subjects: Byzantium (Ancient city)--Analysis, Cities and towns, Ruined, extinct, etc.--Analysis
...Church of the Holy Wisdom (Saint Sophia) is only the most famous...great conquerors, the emperors Nicephorus II Phocas (r. 963-69...abbesses, and eventually saints. Two Byzantine empresses...Byzantine had to admit that female saints were spiritually and morally...Ancient and Byzantine History at Saint Louis University. His most...


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encyclopedia articles on: Nicephorus Saint  - 2 results

 
 
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Nicephorus, Saint
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
NICEPHORUS, SAINT nisef r s, 758? 829?, patriarch...Byzantine historian and theologian. St. Nicephorus attended the Second Council of Nicaea...emperor. His appointment by Emperor Nicephorus I to the patriarchate while he was...
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Theodore of Studium, Saint
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
THEODORE OF STUDIUM, SAINT stoo de m, 759 826, Byzantine Greek monastic reformer, also called...Byzantine rite. He was exiled again (809 11) after long quarrels with Nicephorus I, and by Leo V when he opposed him (814). His influence was...


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