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Nikephoros I (Greek: Νικηφόρος; 750 – 26 July 811), also known as Nicephorus I The Open-minded, was the Byzantine emperor from 802 to 811. He began his career as genikos logothetēs under Empress Irene , but later overthrew her to seize the throne.
- 31 October 802 – 26 July 811
- Eastern Orthodox
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]
- 13 March, 2 June
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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Feb 2, 2018 · Nikephoros I ruled as emperor of the Byzantine Empire from 802 to 811 CE. A former finance minister who did much to improve the state economy, Nikephoros was not particularly popular with the empire 's overtaxed peasants and overregulated merchants.
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Mar 28, 2024 · 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.
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Nikephoros I Komnenos Doukas, Latinized as Nicephorus I Comnenus Ducas (Greek: Νικηφόρος Κομνηνός Δούκας, romanized: Nikēphoros Komnēnos Doukas; c. 1240 – c. 1290) was ruler of Epirus from 1267/8 to his death in 1296/98.
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.
