Sergios Niketiates
Sergios Niketiates (
Biography
Sergios Niketiates is an obscure and "enigmatic" (
Under Theophilos, he became one of the leading members of the
In 843, Sergios was instrumental, along with the logothete
In the same year, according to the Synaxarium Constantinopolitanum, he was entrusted with leading an expedition against the Emirate of Crete, but all other sources record that Theoktistos led the campaign. It is possible, however, that Sergios was left behind when Theoktistos was forced to hurriedly return to Constantinople. Sergios died on Crete, where the Byzantine forces were defeated by the Arabs, and was initially buried on the island in a monastery that became known after him as tou Magistrou ("of the magistros"). He was later moved to a Monastery of the Theotokos in the Gulf of Nicomedia, which he had founded and which in turn became known as tou Niketiatou thereafter.[1]
The French Byzantinist
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h Lilie et al. 2001, "Sergios Niketiates (#6664)", pp. 124–125.
- ^ a b Dumbarton Oaks Hagiography Database, "Sergios Niketiates", p. 90
- ^ a b c d Mango 1977, pp. 134–135.
- ^ Mango 1977, pp. 135, 138.
Sources
- ISBN 0-7044-0226-2.
- Kazhdan, Alexander; Talbot, Alice-Mary; Alexakis, Alexander; Efthymiadis, Stephanos; McGrath, Stamatina; Sherry, Lee Francis; Zielke, Beate, eds. (1998). Dumbarton Oaks Hagiography Database of the Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Century (PDF). Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks.
- ISBN 978-3-11-016674-3.