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Born c.900 • Turkey
Died After 984
Callistus
patriarch of Constantinople
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
Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos
Byzantine historian
Nicholas I
Byzantine patriarch of Constantinople
John XI Becchus
patriarch of Constantinople
Bessarion
Byzantine theologian
St. Maximus the Confessor
Byzantine theologian
Saint Theophanes the Confessor
Byzantine monk
Andronicus I Comnenus, Byzantine emperor 1183–85, effigy on a gold solidus; in the British Museum.
Andronicus I Comnenus
Byzantine emperor
Philotheus Kokkinos
patriarch of Constantinople
Anthony III Studite
patriarch of Constantinople
John VIII Palaeologus
Byzantine emperor
Leontius Of Byzantium
Byzantine monk and theologian