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NICEPHORUS PATRIARCHA (c. 758-829)

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NICEPHORUS PATRIARCHA (c. 758-829) , See also:

Byzantine historian and See also:patriarch of See also:Constantinople (806-815). His See also:father See also:Theodorus, one of the secretaries of the See also:emperor See also:Constantine Copronymus, had been scourged and banished for his zealoussupport of See also:image-See also:worship, and the son inherited the religious convictions of the father. He was secretary to the imperial commissaries at the See also:council of See also:Nicaea in 787, which witnessed the See also:triumph of his opinions; but, feeling dissatisfied with See also:court See also:life, he retired into a See also:convent. In 8o6 he was suddenly raised by the emperor Nicephorus I. to the patriarchate of Constantinople, and this See also:office he held until 815, when he accepted deposition rather than assent to the iconoclastic See also:edict promulgated by See also:Leo the Armenian in the previous See also:year. He retired to the See also:cloister of St See also:Theodore, which he himself had founded, and died there in 829. After his See also:death he was included among the See also:saints of the orthodox See also:church. Nicephorus is the author of a valuable compendium (Breviarium historicum) of Byzantine See also:history from 602 to 770, of a meagre Chronologia compendiaria from See also:Adam to the year of his own death. The former contains an interesting See also:account of the origin and migrations of the Bulgarians. Both will be found, together with some controversial writings and his See also:biography by his See also:pupil See also:Ignatius, also patriarch of Constantinople, in J. P. See also:Migne, Patrologia Graeca, c.; edition of the compendia and life by C. de Boor (188o, Teubner See also:series) ; see also F.

See also:

Hirsch, Byzantinische Studien (1876) ; J. See also:Hergenrother, See also:Photius (1867); C. See also:Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur (1897); Wetzer and Welte's Kirchenlexikon, ix. (See also:Freiburg See also:im See also:Breisgau, 1895).

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