Nicephorus, St (c. 758–829)
| Patriarch of Constantinople from 806. He defended the use and veneration of images against the iconoclasts, and was banished to a monastery in Asia in 816. |
| As well as his writings on the image controversy, he wrote Chronographia Brevis and Breviarium Historicum, a Byzantine history from 602 to 770. |
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