Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Nicetas, Rhetor an Eastern ecclesiastic, by some thought to be identical with Nicetas Paphlago (q.v.), has, among other productions, the following ascribed to him: several Orations known to Allatius: Diatriba in gloriosum Martyrern Panteleemnonem: De Certamine et de Inventione, etc., reliquiarum S. Stephani Protomartyris: Encomiuns in Magnum Nicholaum Myrobleptem et Thaumaturgum. None of these have … Continue reading “Nicetas, Rhetor”

Nicetas, Pectoratus ( ), an Eastern ascetic, noted as a Church writer, was, at the time when patriarch Michael Caerularius (q.v.) separated from the Romish Church, a monk in the convent of Studium, near Constantinople. He is mentioned as a pupil of abbot Simeon of St. Mamas. An enemy of the Latins, he sided at … Continue reading “Nicetas, Pectoratus”

Nicetas, Niceanus an Eastern ecclesiastic of uncertain age, was chartophylax at Nicaea. He wrote De Schismate inter Eccles. Groecam et Romanan, extant in MS. in Paris and elsewhere; Leo Allatius gives a fragment of it in De Synodo Photian. Also perhaps De Azymis et Sabbatorum Jejunio et Nuptiis Sacerdotun, which others ascribe to Nicetas Pectoratus … Continue reading “Nicetas, Niceanus”

Nicetas, David commonly called Paphlago, either on account of his having been born in or having become bishop of Paphlagonia, lived about the year 880. He is best known as the author of a biography of the patriarch Ignatius, who died in 878. This biography is untrustworthy: at the end Ignatius is made to ascend … Continue reading “Nicetas, David”

Nicetas, bp. of Romaciana Nicetas (3) (Niceta, Nicaeas, Niceas, Nicias), bp. of Romaciana (Remesiana) in Dacia. Our knowledge of him is derived from the epistles and poems (Nos. 17 and 24) of Paulinus of Nola, whom he visited, A.D. 398 and 402. He was probably a native of. Dacia. He evangelized the Scythae, Getae, Daci, … Continue reading “Nicetas, bp. of Romaciana”

Nicetas, Acominatus (), also CHONIATES (so called probably from his native place, Chonle, the ancient Colossas), was a younger brother of Michael Acominatus. Both occupy a distinguished place among the Greek writers of the 12th century. Nicetas Choniates is eminent as a doctrinal and polemical writer, and also as a Byzantine historian. He was educated … Continue reading “Nicetas, Acominatus”

Nicetas [Or Nic(a)eus] Of Dacia an Eastern ecclesiastic, who was bishop of a city called by ecclesiastical writers Civitas Romatiana or Remesianensis, situated in Maesia, somewhere between Naissus and Sardia, flourished near the close of the 4th century. He visited Italy about this time, and while at Nola viewing the tomb of St. Felix made … Continue reading “Nicetas [Or Nic(a)eus] Of Dacia”

Nicetas (Or Nechites) Of Nicomedea an Eastern prelate, flourished as archbishop of Nicomedea in the first half of the 12th century. When, in 1136, Anselm, bishop of Havelberg, was sent by pope Innocent II to Constantinople for the purpose of effecting a union between the Eastern and Western churches, Nicetas appeared at this meeting as … Continue reading “Nicetas (Or Nechites) Of Nicomedea”

Nicetas (NICETA) A Bishop of Remesiana (Romatiana) in what is now Servia, born about 335; died about 414. Recent investigations have resulted in a more definite knowledge of the person of this ecclesiastical writer. Gennadius of Marseilles, in his catalogue of writers (“De viris illustribus”, xxii) mentions a “Niceas Romatianæ civitatis episcopus” to whom he … Continue reading “Nicetas”

Nicet(as) Or Nicetus, ST. (3) of Treves, one of the most celebrated prelates of ancient Gaul, lived in the 6th century. His life has been written by Gregory of Tours; it is found in ch. 17 of the Vito Patrum. At first a monk, then abbot of an unknown monastery, he gained in this position … Continue reading “Nicet(as) Or Nicetus, ST. (3)”