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Nikephoros I (Greek: Νικηφόρος; Latin: Nicephorus; 750 – 26 July 811) was Byzantine emperor from 802 to 811. He began his career as genikos logothetēs under Empress Irene, but later overthrew her to seize the throne.
5 April 828. Constantinople. (modern-day Istanbul, Turkey) Venerated in. Roman Catholic Church; Eastern Orthodox Church. Feast. 13 March, 2 June. Nikephoros I or Nicephorus I ( Greek: Νικηφόρος; c. 758 – 5 April 828) was a Byzantine writer and patriarch of Constantinople from 12 April 806 to 13 March 815. [1] [2]
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Saint Nicephorus I ; feast day March 13) was a Greek Orthodox theologian, historian, and patriarch of Constantinople (806–815) whose chronicles of Byzantine history and writings in defense of Byzantine veneration of icons provide data otherwise unavailable on early Christian thought and practice.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Feb 2, 2018 · The Church was not pleased with the emperor's choice for the important position of Patriarch (bishop) of Constantinople either. Confusingly selecting his namesake, the scholarly layman Nikephoros I (r. 806-815 CE), the new bishop's support of the second marriage of Constantine VI (r. 780-797 CE) in 795 CE, which had created the Moechian controversy over whether an emperor should remarry, set ...
- Mark Cartwright
Mar 28, 2024 · Nicephorus I was a Byzantine emperor from 802 who late in his reign alienated his subjects with his extremely heavy taxation and frequent confiscations of property. Nicephorus became a high financial official under the empress Irene, and, when a revolution deposed Irene in 802, he was proclaimed.
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An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors. Atlas. Nicephorus I A. D. 802-811. Matthew Marsh Sul Ross State University. Nicephorus I can be considered one of the Byzantine Empire's more controversial emperors, reigning in a period more turbulent than usual.
NICEPHORUS I, PATRIARCH OF CONSTANTINOPLE, ST. Patriarchate April 12, 806 to March 13, 815; Byzantine theologian and historian; b. Constantinople, c. 758; d. in exile near Chalcedon, June 2, 828. Nicephorus stood in the forefront of the battle against iconoclasm.
