Nikolaos 78 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M IX |
| PmbZ No. | 5583 |
| Locations | Antioch (Syria); Antioch (Syria) (officeplace) |
| Titles | Archbishop, Antioch (office); Bishop, Antioch (office); Patriarch, Antioch (office) |
| Textual Sources | Eutychius, Annales, Latin tr. in PG 111. 907-1156;Das Annalenwerk des Eutychius von Alexandrien. ...kompiliert von Sa'îd ibn Batrîq CSCO 471-472; Eutychii PatriarchaeAlexandrini Annales CSCO 50-51 (chronicle); Photius, Epistulae, ed. B. Laourdas and L. G. Westerink, 3 vols. (Leipzig, 1983-85) (letters) |
Nikolaos 78 became patriarch of Antioch in the sixth year of al-Wathik (Al-Wathiq 1) and occupied the see for twenty-three years: Eutychius Alex. 1135D. He was the patriarch of Antioch in the mid ninth century and the rival of Eustathios 48; cf. Photius, Ep. 289 (III 121 Laourdas- Westerink), and see Anonymus 602 and Eustathios 48. For his dates, 845 to 867, see Grumel, Chronologie, p. 447.
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