Byzantine saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church

The list Byzantine saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church includes Kassia, Theophylact of Ohrid, Patriarch Philotheus I of Constantinople, Symeon the Metaphrast and Theognostus. The list consists of 41 members.

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Kassia

Byzantine-Greek composer and hymnographer (810–865)

Overview: Kassia, Cassia or Kassiani (Greek: Κασσιανή, Kassianí, 805/810 - before 865) was a Byzantine abbess, poet, composer, and hymnographer. She is one of the first medieval composers whose scores are both extant ...

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9th-century women composers 1T

9th-century Byzantine women 10T

Eastern Orthodox abbesses 4T
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John Kukuzelis

14th-century Byzantine composer

Overview: John Koukouzelis or Jan Kukuzeli (Albanian: (Shën) Jan Kukuzeli; Bulgarian: Йоан Кукузел, Yoan Kukuzel; Greek: Ιωάννης Κουκουζέλης, Ioannis Koukouzelis; Macedonian: Јован Кукузел, Jovan Kukuzel; c. 1280 ...

Date of birth: 1280

Date of death: 1360

Age: 79 (age at death)

Nationality: Albanian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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14th-century Byzantine writers 31T

Medieval male composers 70T

Albanian saints 7T
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Theognostus

Overview: Theognostus (Russian: , Ukrainian: ) (died March 11, 1353) was Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus'.

Date of death: 11 March 1353

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People from Constantinople 78T

14th-century Christian saints 72T

14th-century Eastern Orthodox martyrs 3T
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Theophylact of Ohrid

Byzantine archbishop

Overview: Theophylact (Greek: Θεοφύλακτος, Bulgarian: Теофилакт; around 1055 – after 1107) was a Byzantine archbishop of Ohrid and commentator on the Bible.

Date of birth: 1055

Date of death: 1107

Age: 51 (age at death)

Occupation: Writer

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Byzantine letter writers 8T

People from Chalcis 26T

Saints of medieval Macedonia 7T
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Gennadius Scholarius

15th-century Patriarch of Constantinople

Overview: Gennadius II (Greek Γεννάδιος Βʹ; lay name Γεώργιος Κουρτέσιος Σχολάριος, Georgios Kourtesios Scholarios; c. 1400 – c. 1473) was a Byzantine philosopher and theologian, and Ecumenical Patriarch of Con ...

Date of birth: 1400

Date of death: 1473

Age: 72 (age at death)

Nationality: Greek

Occupation: Philosopher

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15th-century Eastern Orthodox theologians 3T

15th-century Byzantine writers 14T

15th-century patriarchs of Constantinople 6T
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Gregory Palamas

Greek monk and archbishop

Overview: Gregory Palamas (Greek: Γρηγόριος Παλαμᾶς; c. 1296 – 1357 or 1359) was a Byzantine Greek theologian and Eastern Orthodox cleric of the late Byzantine period. A monk of Mount Athos (modern Greece) and later ...

Date of birth: 1296

Date of death: 14 November 1359

Age: 63 (age at death)

Occupation: Philosopher

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14th-century Eastern Orthodox theologians 7T

14th-century Byzantine writers 27T

Byzantine Christian mystics 4T
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Sergios Niketiates

Overview: Sergios Niketiates (Greek: Σέργιος Νικητιάτης, fl. c.) was a senior Byzantine official and member of the Amorian dynasty. He is celebrated as a saint by the Orthodox Church on 28 June for his role ...

Occupation: Military

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Nicetas the Patrician

Byzantine official and saint (761/62–836)

Overview: Saint Nicetas the Patrician (Greek: Νικήτας Πατρίκιος, Niketas Patrikios; 761/62 – 6 October 836) was a Byzantine monk and a fervent opponent of Byzantine Iconoclasm. He is usually identified with Nicetas ...

Occupation: Military

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Peter the Patrician (9th century)

Overview: Peter was a senior Byzantine military commander at the turn of the 9th century, who later became a monk and was canonized by the Church. He is venerated on July 1.

Occupation: Military

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Antony the Younger

Overview: Saint Antony the Younger (Greek: Ἀντώνιος ὁ νέος, 785 – 11 November 865) was a Byzantine military officer who became a monk and saint. He is commemorated by the Eastern Orthodox Church on 1 December ...

Occupation: Military

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Niketas Stethatos

11th-century Byzantine mystic and theologian

Overview: Niketas Stethatos (Greek: Νικήτας Στηθᾶτος, Latin: Nicetas Pectoratus; c. 1005 – c. 1090) was a Byzantine mystic and theologian who is considered a saint by the Eastern Orthodox Church. He was a follower ...

Date of birth: 1005

Date of death: 1090

Age: 84 (age at death)

Occupation: Writer

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Lazarus Zographos

9th-century Byzantine Christian saint

Overview: Lazarus (Greek: Λάζαρος), surnamed Zographos (Ζωγράφος, "the Painter"), is a 9th-century Byzantine Christian saint. He is also known as Lazarus the Painter and Lazarus the Iconographer. Born in Armenia ...

Occupation: Painter

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Domitian of Melitene

Overview: Domitian (Latin: Domitianus, Greek: Δομιτιανός; c. 550 – 602) was the nephew of the Roman emperor Maurice and the archbishop of Melitene in Roman Armenia from around 580 until his death. He was renowned ...

Occupation: Diplomat

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6th-century diplomats 7T

People of the Roman–Sasanian Wars 47T

Saints from Roman Anatolia 49T
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Theodore the Studite

Byzantine monk, abbot, and scholar

Overview: Theodore the Studite (also known as Theodorus Studita, Saint Theodore of Stoudios, and Saint Theodore of Studium; 759–826) was a Byzantine Greek monk and abbot of the Stoudios Monastery in Constantinople ...

Occupation: Composer

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8th-century Greek musicians 1T

9th-century Greek musicians 3T

9th-century Byzantine writers 15T
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Maximus III of Constantinople

Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1476 to 1482

Overview: Maximus III (Greek: Μάξιμος Γ΄), born Manuel Christonymos (Greek: Μανουήλ Χριστώνυμος), (? – 3 April 1482), was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1476 to his death in 1482, and a scholar. He ...

Date of death: 3 April 1482

Nationality: Greek

Occupation: Historian

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Theophano, wife of Leo VI

Byzantine Empress consort

Overview: Theophano Martinakia (Greek: Θεοφανώ; 866/67 – 10 November 897) was a Byzantine empress by marriage to Leo VI the Wise. She is venerated as a saint by the Eastern Orthodox Church.

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Byzantine royal saints 1T

9th-century empresses consort 5T

9th-century Byzantine empresses 8T
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Stephen the Younger

Byzantine monk from Constantinople

Overview: Saint Stephen the Younger (Greek: , 713/715 – 28 November 764 or 765) was a Byzantine monk from Constantinople who became one of the leading opponents of the iconoclastic policies of Emperor Constantine ...

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8th-century executions by the Byzantine Empire 3T

8th-century Byzantine monks 2T

People from Constantinople 78T
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Andrew of Constantinople

10th century Eastern Orthodox saint

Overview: Andrew of Constantinople (Andrew the Fool-for-Christ, Andrew, the Fool or Andrew, Fool-for-Christ-sake, Greek Andreas ho Salos), (died in 936) is considered a saint by the Eastern Orthodox Church. He ...

Date of death: 936

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Marian visionaries 58T

936 deaths 4T

10th-century Christian saints 40T
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Constantine Leichoudes

Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1059 to 1063

Date of death: 1063

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11th-century patriarchs of Constantinople 7T

Byzantine abbots 9T

Protovestiarioi 8T
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Patriarch Cosmas I of Constantinople

Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1075 to 1081

Overview: Cosmas I of Jerusalem (Greek; ??sµ?? ?? ?e??s???µ?t??) was Patriarch of Constantinople from 2 August, 1075 to 8 May, 1081. Originally from Antioch, he was educated and resided in Jerusalem for a large ...

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