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Nicholas Hagiotheodorites (
Greek: Νικόλαος Ἁγιοθεοδωρίτης,
romanized: Nikolaos Hagiotheodōritēs; died 1175) was a
Byzantine scholar, official, and
Metropolitan of Athens.
The
Hagiotheodorites family first appears in the early 12th century, and were all civil and religious functionaries. Nicholas and his two brothers all rose to occupy the highest offices under
Manuel I Komnenos (r. 1143–1180):
Michael Hagiotheodorites became
epi tou kanikleiou,
orphanotrophos, and
logothetes tou dromou, while
John Hagiotheodorites became
Eparch of Constantinople and
mesazon.
Nicholas Hagiotheodorites served as law teacher (
nomophylax) and even held the post of
maistor ton rhetoron ("master of the
rhetoricians"). He then resided in Athens as its
metropolitan bishop from ca. 1160 to his death in 1175. His successor was the scholar
Michael Choniates.
References
Sources
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Kazhdan, Alexander, ed. (1991).
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
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"Ο Ευστάθιος Θεσσαλονίκης και η μονωδία του για τον Νικόλαο Αγιοθεοδωρίτη". Byzantina Symmeikta (in Greek). 17: 199–211.
doi:
10.12681/byzsym.922.
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"Η βυζαντινή οικογένεια των Αγιοθεοδωριτών (Ι): Νικόλαος Αγιοθεοδωρίτης, Πανιερώτατος Μητροπολίτης Αθηνών και Υπέρτιμος". Byzantina Symmeikta (in Greek). 19: 147–181.
doi:
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Magdalino, Paul (2002) [1993].
The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos, 1143–1180. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
ISBN
0-521-52653-1.
- Shawcross, Therese (2016).
"Golden Athens: Episcopal Wealth and Power in Greece at the Time of the Crusades". In Nikolaos G. Chrissis; Mike Carr (eds.). Contact and Conflict in Frankish Greece and the Aegean, 1204-1453: Crusade, Religion and Trade Between Latins, Greeks and Turks. Routledge. pp. 65–95.
ISBN
9781317161059.
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