Theophanes
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- Theodorus and TheophanesTheodorus and TheophanesSaints Theodorus and Theophanes , called the Grapti , are remembered as proponents of the veneration of icons during the second Iconoclastic controversy...
(ca. 778-845), called the Grapti, proponents of the veneration of images during the second Iconoclastic controversy - Theophanes the ConfessorTheophanes the ConfessorSaint Theophanes Confessor was a member of the Byzantine aristocracy, who became a monk and chronicler. He is venerated on March 12 in the Roman Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox Church .-Biography:Theophanes was born in Constantinople of wealthy and noble iconodule parents: Isaac,...
Byzantine 8th-9th century historian - Theophan the RecluseTheophan the RecluseSt. Theophan the Recluse, also known as "Theophan Zatvornik" or "Theophanes the Recluse" , is a well-known saint in the Russian Orthodox Church. He was born George Vasilievich Govorov, in the village of Chernavsk. His father was a Russian Orthodox priest. He was educated in the seminaries at...
(1815–1894) Russian saint - Théophane VénardThéophane VénardSaint Jean-Théophane Vénard, M.E.P. was aFrench Catholic missionary to Indo-China. He was a member of the Paris Foreign Missions Society...
(1821-1869) one of the Vietnamese Martyrs
Others
- Theophanes of MytileneTheophanes of MytileneTheophanes of Mytilene was an intellectual and historian from the town of Mytilene on the island of Lesbos who lived in the middle of the 1st century BC. He was a friend of Pompey and wrote a book about his expedition to Asia...
(1st century BC) political figure and historian in Lesbos - Theophanes of ByzantiumTheophanes of ByzantiumTheophanes of Byzantium was a Byzantine historian.He wrote, in ten books, the history of the Eastern Empire during the Persian war under Justin II, beginning from the second year of Justin , in which the truce made by Justinian I with Khosrau I was broken, and going down to last year of the war...
(6th century) Byzantine historian - Theophanes the BrandedTheophanes the BrandedTheophanes the Branded also called Theophanes Graptus or Theophanes of Nicea was a Byzantine monk and hymnographer.Next to Joseph the Hymnographer, Theophanes is the major contributor to the Orthodox liturgical book called the Paraklitiki .-Life:His Vita prima was recorded in the Life of Michael...
(also called Theophanes Graptus or Theophanes of Nicea, 775-845), Byzantine monk and hymnographer - Theophanes ContinuatusTheophanes ContinuatusTheophanes Continuatus or Scriptores post Theophanem is the Latin name commonly applied to a collection of historical writings preserved in the 11th-century Vat. gr. 167 manuscript. Its name derives from its role as the continuation, covering the years 813–961, of the chronicle of Theophanes the...
Latin name applied to a chronicle continuing the history of Theophanes the Confessor - Theophanes (chamberlain)Theophanes (chamberlain)Theophanes was a Byzantine palace official and the chief adviser of Emperor Romanos Lekapenos during most of his reign. He was also an active and able diplomat, and led the naval defense of Constantinople against the Rus' invasion of 941....
(fl.c. 920-945) Byzantine official and chief minister of Emperor Romanos Lekapenos - Theophanes NonnusTheophanes NonnusTheophanes Nonnus or Nonnos, originally Theophanes Chrysobalantes or Chrysobalantites was a Byzantine physician who wrote an outline of medicine dedicated to Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus.-Identity:...
(fl.c. 950), Byzantine physician who wrote outline of medicine dedicated to Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus - Theophanes KerameusTheophanes KerameusTheophanes Kerameus was bishop of Rossano, in Calabria, Italy, and a celebrated homiletic writer.His sermons, ninety-one of which are known in manuscript, are mostly exegetical, and written in Greek, which was then still extensively spoken in Sicily and Southern Italy...
(1129-1152) bishop of Rossano, in Italy, and a celebrated homiletic writer. - Theophanes the GreekTheophanes the GreekTheophanes the Greek was a Byzantine Greek artist and one of the greatest icon painters, or iconographers, of Muscovite Russia, and was noted as the teacher and mentor of the great Andrei Rublev.-Life and work:Theophanes was born in the capital of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople...
(ca. 1340-1410) Byzantine icon painter that worked in Russia - Theophanes the CretanTheophanes the CretanTheophanis Strelitzas , also known as Theophanes the Cretan or "of Crete" or "Theophanes Bathas", was a leading icon painter of the Cretan school in the first half of the sixteenth century, and in particular the most important figure in Greek wall-painting of the period.He was born in Heraklion...
(active 1527-48) Cretan icon painter