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Born c.900 • Turkey
Died After 984
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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
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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
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Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos
Byzantine historian
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Nicholas I
Byzantine patriarch of Constantinople
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John XI Becchus
patriarch of Constantinople
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Bessarion
Byzantine theologian
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St. Maximus the Confessor
Byzantine theologian
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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
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Philotheus Kokkinos
patriarch of Constantinople
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Anthony III Studite
patriarch of Constantinople
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John VIII Palaeologus
Byzantine emperor
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Leontius Of Byzantium
Byzantine monk and theologian