Neilos Doxapatres ( Greek: Νεῖλος ὁ Δοξοπατρῆς) [1] was a Byzantine Greek monk, theologian, and writer active in Constantinople and Sicily during the first half of the 12th century.
Born into a native Greek family [2] [3] [4] of Constantinople, [5] [6] he made his career there, where he held various ecclesiastical and secular high offices; deacon of the Hagia Sophia, patriarchal notary, protoproedros of the protosynkelloi and nomophylax. [1] [7] At some point he became a monk, assuming the monastic name "Neilos", and left for Sicily. [1] According to the prologue of Neilos' work on the patriarchs, he was in Palermo in 1142/43, at the court of king Roger II of Sicily. [4] [5] His signature appears at the bottom of an act, dated 1146, regarding the church of the Martorana in Palermo. [8]
Neilos Doxapatres shares a surname with John Doxapatres, a professor of rhetoric who taught in Constantinople in the eleventh century, but their relationship is unknown.
Two works by Doxapatres have survived:
The Synopsis Canonum written by Alexios Aristenos was falsely attributed to him. [9]
At Roger's court several Greeks were active like Neilos Doxapatres...
For instance, Neilos Doxapatres, a Greek theologian of the Norman period, has been suggested as the author of the vita of St Philaretos (...).
Roger also sheltered the Greek theologian Nilos Doxapatres, who fled from Constantinople to Palermo around 1140,...
A notitia by Nilos Doxapatres, originally of Constantinople, was presented by him to the Norman King Roger II of Sicily in 1143, about the time when *al-Idrisi was working in Palermo on his world geography (...).
In 1143 Roger II of Sicily asked Nilos Doxapatres, a native Constantinopolitan serving in Sicily, to answer several questions about the church's patriarchal structure.
Neilos Doxapatres ( Greek: Νεῖλος ὁ Δοξοπατρῆς) [1] was a Byzantine Greek monk, theologian, and writer active in Constantinople and Sicily during the first half of the 12th century.
Born into a native Greek family [2] [3] [4] of Constantinople, [5] [6] he made his career there, where he held various ecclesiastical and secular high offices; deacon of the Hagia Sophia, patriarchal notary, protoproedros of the protosynkelloi and nomophylax. [1] [7] At some point he became a monk, assuming the monastic name "Neilos", and left for Sicily. [1] According to the prologue of Neilos' work on the patriarchs, he was in Palermo in 1142/43, at the court of king Roger II of Sicily. [4] [5] His signature appears at the bottom of an act, dated 1146, regarding the church of the Martorana in Palermo. [8]
Neilos Doxapatres shares a surname with John Doxapatres, a professor of rhetoric who taught in Constantinople in the eleventh century, but their relationship is unknown.
Two works by Doxapatres have survived:
The Synopsis Canonum written by Alexios Aristenos was falsely attributed to him. [9]
At Roger's court several Greeks were active like Neilos Doxapatres...
For instance, Neilos Doxapatres, a Greek theologian of the Norman period, has been suggested as the author of the vita of St Philaretos (...).
Roger also sheltered the Greek theologian Nilos Doxapatres, who fled from Constantinople to Palermo around 1140,...
A notitia by Nilos Doxapatres, originally of Constantinople, was presented by him to the Norman King Roger II of Sicily in 1143, about the time when *al-Idrisi was working in Palermo on his world geography (...).
In 1143 Roger II of Sicily asked Nilos Doxapatres, a native Constantinopolitan serving in Sicily, to answer several questions about the church's patriarchal structure.