Nikanor 1

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitE IX
Dates823 (taq) / 823 (tpq)
PmbZ No.5251
LocationsStoudios (Monastery of, Constantinople);
Stoudios (Monastery of, Constantinople) (residence)
OccupationMonk
Textual SourcesTheodorus Studita, Epistulae, ed. G. Fatouros, CFHB 31.1-2 (Berlin/New York, 1992) (letters)

A Stoudite monk, Nikanor 1 carried letters between Theodoros 15 (Theodore the Stoudite) and the hermit Theoktistos 19 and is referred to in a letter from Theodoros 15 to St Ioannikios (Ioannikios 2) in c. 823 (Νικάνωρ ὁ ἡμέτερος ἀδελφός) ; Nikanor 1 had brought Theodoros 15 news of the repentance and return to orthodoxy of Theoktistos 19: Theod. Stud., Ep. 461.

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