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Born c.550 • Damascus? • Syria
Died 619 • Istanbul • Rome • Turkey? • Italy?
Subjects Of Study Middle East • asceticism • monasticism
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Philotheus Kokkinos
patriarch of Constantinople
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Athanasius I
patriarch of Constantinople
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Saint John Climacus
Byzantine monk
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Eustathius of Thessalonica
Greek Orthodox metropolitan
St. Basil the Great
St. Basil the Great
bishop of Caesarea
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Saint Nilus of Ancyra
Greek abbot
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Palladius
Galatian monk, bishop, and chronicler
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Arsenius the Great
Roman monk
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Theodore Ascidas
Greek monk-theologian
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Saint Theodosius of Palestine
Asian saint
St. Sava, detail of a fresco at the Mileševa monastery, near Prijepolje, Serbia.
St. Sava
Serbian monk
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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
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Michael VIII Palaeologus
Byzantine emperor
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Theodosius Of Alexandria
Egyptian patriarch
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Euthymius I
Orthodox patriarch
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Demetrius Cydones
Byzantine scholar and statesman
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Saint Germanus I
Byzantine patriarch
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John III Ducas Vatatzes
emperor of Nicaea