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Born c.550 • Damascus? • Syria
Died 619 • Istanbul • Rome • Italy? • Turkey?
Subjects Of Study Middle East • asceticism • monasticism
Philotheus Kokkinos
patriarch of Constantinople
Athanasius I
patriarch of Constantinople
Eustathius of Thessalonica
Greek Orthodox metropolitan
Saint John Climacus
Byzantine monk
St. Basil, detail of a mosaic, 12th century; in the Palatine Chapel, Palermo, Sicily, Italy.
St. Basil the Great
bishop of Caesarea
Saint Nilus of Ancyra
Greek abbot
Palladius
Galatian monk, bishop, and chronicler
Arsenius the Great
Roman monk
Theodore Ascidas
Greek monk-theologian
Saint Theodosius of Palestine
Asian saint
St. Sava, detail of a fresco at the Mileševa monastery, near Prijepolje, Serbia.
St. Sava
Serbian monk
Saint Nicodemus the Hagiorite
Greek monk
Leo III
Leo III
Byzantine emperor
Photius, lead seal; in the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C.
Saint Photius
patriarch of Constantinople
Michael VIII Palaeologus
Byzantine emperor
Theodosius Of Alexandria
Egyptian patriarch
Euthymius I
Orthodox patriarch
Demetrius Cydones
Byzantine scholar and statesman
Saint Germanus I
Byzantine patriarch
John III Ducas Vatatzes
emperor of Nicaea