John the Deacon
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John the Deacon may refer to:
- John the Deacon (Church of Rome)John the Deacon (Church of Rome)John the Deacon was a deacon in the Church of Rome during the pontificate of Pope Symmachus . He is known only from an epistle he wrote to a Senarius, a vir illustris who had asked him to explain aspects of Christian initiatory practice...
, ca. 500 - John the Deacon (Egyptian chronicler)John the Deacon (Egyptian chronicler)John the Deacon was a Monophysite Egyptian chronicler whose Life of the Patriarch Michael, finished c.768–70, is the most important source for the Christian Nubia in the first half of the eighth century. The later historian Sawirus ibn al-Muqaffaʿ made heavy use of it, and although John is one of...
, ca. 768, monk - Johannes Hymonides, d. before 882, Rome.
- John the Deacon (Neapolitan historian), d. after 910
- John the Deacon (Venetian chronicler), d. after 1008
- John the Deacon (Byzantine writer)John the Deacon (Byzantine writer)The Byzantine John the Deacon is the author of a tract on the veneration of saints and against the doctrine of soul sleep.He was one of several Byzantine writers who wrote on this theme, from Eustratios of Constantinople and Niketas Stethatos, to Philip Monotropos and Michael Glykas.-References:...
, fl. 11th century; On the veneration of saints. - John the Deacon of the Lateran, fl. 12th century