Theophanes

Theophanes may refer to:

Saints

  • Theodorus and Theophanes (ca. 778-845), called the Grapti, proponents of the veneration of images during the second Iconoclastic controversy
  • Theophanes the Confessor Byzantine 8th-9th-century historian
  • Theophan the Recluse (1815–1894) Russian saint
  • Théophane Vénard (1821-1869) one of the Vietnamese Martyrs

Others

  • Theophanes of Mytilene (1st century BC) political figure and historian in Lesbos
  • Theophanes of Byzantium (6th century) Byzantine historian
  • Theophanes the Branded (also called Theophanes Graptus or Theophanes of Nicea, 775-845), Byzantine monk and hymnographer
  • Theophanes Continuatus Latin name applied to a chronicle continuing the history of Theophanes the Confessor
  • Theophanes (chamberlain) (fl.c. 920-945) Byzantine official and chief minister of Emperor Romanos Lekapenos
  • Theophanes Nonnus (fl.c. 950), Byzantine physician who wrote outline of medicine dedicated to Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus
  • Theophanes Kerameus (1129-1152) bishop of Rossano, in Italy, and a celebrated homiletic writer.
  • Theophanes the Greek (ca. 1340-1410) Byzantine icon painter that worked in Russia
  • Theophanes the Cretan (active 1527-48) Cretan icon painter
  • Theophanes (Kim) (born 1976), Archbishop of the Russian Orthodox diocese of Korea

See also

  • Theofanis, modern variant of this name
  • Theophano (disambiguation), a female form of the name
  • Theophania (disambiguation), a female form of the name
  • Theophanes (crater) a crater on the planet Mercury
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