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Also Known As St. Methodios I
Born 788 or 800 • Syracuse • Italy
Died June 14, 847 • Istanbul • Turkey
Role In Iconoclastic Controversy
Simon Ushakov
Russian artist
St. John of Damascus
Christian saint
Saint Germanus I
Byzantine patriarch
Saint Nicephorus I
Greek Orthodox patriarch
Saint Theophanes the Confessor
Byzantine monk
Saint Theodore Studites
Byzantine saint
Theōdūrus Abū Qurrah
Syrian bishop
Paul I, Saint
Saint Paul I
pope
Gregory III, Saint
Saint Gregory III
pope
Saint Gregory II
pope
Leo III
Leo III
Byzantine emperor
Theophilus
Theophilus
Byzantine emperor
Dionisy
Russian artist
Saint Andrey Rublyov
Russian painter
Michael II, coin, 9th century; in the British Museum
Michael II
Byzantine emperor
Leo V
Byzantine emperor
Leo IV
Byzantine emperor
George the Monk
Byzantine historian
Portrait of Daidō Ichii by Kichizan with a laudatory inscription by Shōkai Reiken (not reproduced here), hanging scroll, ink on paper; in the Nara National Museum, Japan
Kichizan
Japanese painter
Theophanes The Greek
Byzantine painter