Nicephorus of Constantinople |
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Nicephorus the patriarch of Constantinople in the 9 C. who was in conflict with the iconoclasts and because of his opposition he was deposed from his see in 815, by the emperor Leo V. He was imprisoned along with Theodore the Studite the abbot of Studios Monastery in Constantinople and spent the rest of his life in exiles. He left behind him many writings, and a book of world history. |

