Saint Symeon of Thessalonica (c. 1381–1429) was a monk, bishop and theologian in Greece. Symeon was born in Constantinople, most likely between 1381 and...
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The siege of Thessalonica between 1422 and 1430 saw the Ottoman Empire, under Sultan Murad II, capture the city of Thessalonica. Afterwards, the city...
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Saint Simeon (redirect from St Symeon)
Orthodox saint canonised under the name Simeon the Myrrh-streaming Symeon of Thessalonica (c. 1381–1429), Eastern Orthodox saint Saint-Siméon, Eure, in the...
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Saint Anysia of Thessalonica (Greek: Άγία Άνυσία) (d. c. 304) was a Christian virgin and martyr of the 4th century. She was born of pious and affluent...
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of Thessalonica (or Eustathios of Thessalonike; Greek: Εὐστάθιος Θεσσαλονίκης; c. 1115 – c. 1195/6) was a Byzantine Greek scholar and Archbishop of Thessalonica...
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Phelonion (category History of clothing)
gradually supplanted by the sakkos. In his writings around 1400, Symeon of Thessalonica allows it to be used by all metropolitans. Between the 12th and...
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Mitre (category History of clothing (Western fashion))
prelate to wear a hat during the liturgy. This claim was repeated by Symeon of Thessalonica in the fifteenth century, who in his Concerning the Holy Temple...
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of Thessalonica was subordinated to the Patriarch of Rome, rising to become the archbishopric of the Eastern Illyricum. Roman control—and the use of Latin...
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Siege of Thessalonica. Alvise Loredan. Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 65 (2005) Russell, Eugenia (2009). Symeon of Thessalonica and his...
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Ecumenical council (redirect from Chronological list of Ecumenical councils)
of Rhodes, St. Mark of Ephesus (15th century), St. Symeon of Thessalonica (15th century), and the Patriarch Dositheos II of Jerusalem in his Tome of Joy...
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Nicholas Kabasilas (category Byzantine bishops of Thessalonica)
Kabasilas or Cabasilas (Greek: Νικόλαος Καβάσιλας; born 1319/1323 in Thessalonica; died 1392) was a Byzantine mystic and theological writer. Kabasilas...
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Eusebius (Greek: Εὐσέβιος) was a bishop of Thessalonica during the time of Pope Gregory the Great (590–604). In the year 601, Pope Gregory wrote a letter...
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Sakkos (category History of clothing)
certain archbishops of exceptional status, and that it was only worn on Christmas, Easter, and Pentecost. Symeon of Thessalonica similarly ascribes it...
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Death in the Byzantine Empire (category Culture of the Byzantine Empire)
century) and Symeon of Thessalonica (15th century). Since the early 1980s, studies of Byzantine “moral” apocalypses, which for a number of reasons had...
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Typikon (category Liturgy of the Hours)
comes from descriptions in the writings of Saint Symeon of Thessalonica. Typika arose within the monastic movements of the early Christian era to regulate...
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Thessaloniki (redirect from Thessalonica)
(/ˌθɛsələˈniːki/; Greek: Θεσσαλονίκη [θesaloˈnici] ), also known as Thessalonica (English: /ˌθɛsələˈnaɪkə, ˌθɛsəˈlɒnɪkə/), Saloniki, Salonika, or Salonica...
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while the De Sacro Templo of Symeon of Thessalonica discusses the religious elements of the ceremony from a theological point of view. Unlike for the middle...
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John Komnenos Molyvdos (redirect from Hierotheos of Dristra)
works of Symeon of Thessalonica, together with Markos Eugenikos' treatise Exposition of the Church's Daily Prayer. It was dedicated to the Prince of Moldavia...
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Canonical hours (category Parts of a day)
righteous laws" (of this, Symeon of Thessalonica writes that "the times of prayer and the services are seven in number, like the number of gifts of the Spirit...
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authors of the genre are Maximus the Confessor, John of Damascus, Anastasius of Sinai, Nicholas of Methone, Nicetas of Heraclea, Symeon of Thessalonica and...
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Specifically, the previous patriarch, Symeon I, died without making his will. İşkender Bey, one of the sons of Symeon's main sponsor, George Amiroutzes, had...
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Neilos Kabasilas (category Byzantine bishops of Thessalonica)
Palamite theologian who succeeded Gregory Palamas as Metropolitan of Thessalonica (1361–1363). Neilos, who was called Nicholas as a layman, has often...
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Gregory Palamas (category Byzantine bishops of Thessalonica)
cleric of the late Byzantine period. A monk of Mount Athos (modern Greece) and later archbishop of Thessalonica, he is famous for his defense of hesychast...
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Symeon Logothete (or Symeon Magister) was a 10th-century Byzantine Greek historian and poet. Symeon wrote a world chronicle that goes from Creation to...
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George Dragas (category Alumni of the University of Edinburgh)
According to St. Symeon of Thessalonica, Patriarch Kallinikos of Constantinople and St. Mark Eugenikos of Ephesus (2004) St. Cyril of Alexandria's Teaching...
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Leo the Mathematician (category Byzantine bishops of Thessalonica)
Byzantium in the 9th century". He was archbishop of Thessalonica and later became the head of the Magnaura School of philosophy in Constantinople, where he taught...
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John VII Palaiologos (category Byzantine governors of Thessalonica)
end their dynastic feud in 1399. According to the Byzantine monk Symeon of Thessalonica, John VII's attitude towards Manuel had only changed because Bayezid...
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resistance of the patriarchal synod, John Kantakouzenos led John Kalekas to his election, first, as Metropolitan of Thessalonica and, then, as patriarch of Constantinople...
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Konstantinos Kyparissis; 1800 – 12 July 1889) served as the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria from 14 March 1858 until his resignation on 24 May 1861. He was...
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was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in 1634, 1635 and 1652. Before his patriarchate Athanasius was metropolitan of Thessaloniki. He participated...
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