Η βυζαντινή οικογένεια των Αγιοθεοδωριτών (Ι) : Νικόλαος Αγιοθεοδωρίτης, Πανιερώτατος Μητροπολίτης Αθηνών και Υπέρτιμος
Part of : Βυζαντινά Σύμμεικτα ; Vol.19, No.2009, pages 147-181
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THE BYZANTINE FAMILY OF THE HAGIOTHEODORITES (I): NIKOLAOS HAGIOTHEODORITES, ALL-HOLIEST METROPOLITAN OF ATHENS AND HYPERTIMOSThe present article consists in a prosopographical study on Nikolaos Hagiotheodorites. Nikolaos, didaskalos tou evangeliou, maistor ton rhetoron and metropolitan of Athens (1160/66-1175), was one of the most prominent scholars under the service of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople. His brother Michael acted as a Logothetes tou dromou (1166-1180) and mesazon in the court of Manuel I Comnenus. Both of them are the most renowned members of the Hagiotheodorites family. Nikolaos Hagiotheodorites was the typical busy public figure of his time. Having initially a succesful church career, he then accomplished an impressive professional activity by combining many secular and ecclesiastical offices.
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Byzantine Prosopography, Middle Byzantine
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