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NICEPHORUS PATRIARCHA (c. 758-829)
, See also:Byzantine historian and See also:patriarch of See also:Constantinople (806-815)
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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
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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
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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
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He retired to the See also:cloister of St See also:Theodore, which he himself had founded, and died there in 829
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After his See also:death he was included among the See also:saints of the orthodox See also: 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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