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NICEPHORUS PATRIARCHA (c. 758-829) , Byzantine historian and patriarch of Constantinople (806-815). His father Theodorus
worship , and the son inherited the religious convictions of the father. He was secretary to the imperial commissaries at the council of Nicaea in 787, which witnessed the triumph
Constantinople , and this office he held until 815, when he accepted deposition rather than assent to the iconoclastic edict promulgated by Leo the Armenian in the previous year. He retired to the cloister of St Theodore
Nicephorus is the author of a valuable compendium (Breviarium historicum) of Byzantine history from 602 to 770, of a meagre Chronologia compendiaria from Adam
biography by his pupil Ignatius, also patriarch of Constantinople, in J. P. Migne, Patrologia Graeca, c.; edition of the compendia and life by C. de Boor (188o, Teubner series ) ; see also F. Hirsch, Byzantinische Studien (1876) ; J. Hergenrother, Photius (1867); C. Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur (1897); Wetzer and Welte's Kirchenlexikon, ix. (Freiburg im Breisgau, 1895).End of Article: NICEPHORUS PATRIARCHA (c. 758-829) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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