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2/9/2024, 9:22 AM Frollein Gladys
11/17/2011, 5:30 PM Lucille
5/7/2008, 11:17 AM Chrysostom

Name Nicephorus
Gender Masculine
Usage Ancient Greek (Latinized), History (Ecclesiastical)
Edit Status Status3. usages AND description are verified

Meaning & History

Latinized form of Nikephoros. Saint Nicephorus I (c. 758 - 829) was a Greek Orthodox theologian, historian, and patriarch of Constantinople (806–815) whose chronicles of Byzantine history and writings in defense of Byzantine veneration of icons provide data otherwise unavailable on early Christian thought and practice.
Added 5/7/2008 by Chrysostom