Nikephoros (name)

Nikephoros or Νικηφόρος, Greek : The usual victory , from νίκη (nike) "victory" and φορέω (phoreo) "to win, carry away", also Nikiforos, Latin form: Nikephorus or Nicephorus, is a male given name.

Nikephoros is the name of the following people:

Ruler

Nikephorus I.

• Nikephorus I (Patriarch) (probably 757 / 58–828), Byzantine historian and Patriarch of Constantinople
• Nikephorus I (around 760–811), Byzantine emperor
• Nikephorus I (Jerusalem) , Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem
• Nikephorus I. Komnenos Dukas Angelos (around 1240 – around 1297), despot of Epirus

Nikephorus II.

• Nikephorus II. Phocas (912–969), Byzantine emperor
• Nikephorus II. Orsini († 1359), titular Count Palatine of Kephalonia and ruler (despot) of Epirus

Nikephorus III.

• Nikephorus III. Botaneiates, Byzantine Emperor

Caesars, regents, co-emperors

• Nikephorus , fellow Byzantine emperor, son of Artabasdos
• Nikephorus , Byzantine Caesar and pretender to the throne, son of Constantine V.
• Nikephoros Diogenes , Byzantine prince and co-emperor under Romanos IV, Dux of Crete and pretender to the throne against Alexios I.
• Nikephoros Melissenos († 1104), Byzantine general, anti-emperor and emperor under Alexios I.
• Nikephoros Proteuon , Byzantine governor of Bulgaria, brief heir to the throne of Emperor Constantine IX.
• Nikephoros Synadenos , nephew and brief heir to the throne of the Byzantine emperor Nikephorus III.
• Nikephoros Bryennios , Byzantine ethnarch and rebel against Emperor Michael VI.

Usurpers

• Nikephoros Bryennios the Elder , Byzantine general and usurper against Emperor Michael VII.
• Nikephorus Basilakes , Byzantine general and usurper against Emperor Nikephorus III.
• Nikephoros Phokas Barytrachelos († 1022), Byzantine patrician and usurper

Military personnel

• Nikephoros Ouranos , Byzantine military
• Nikephoros Komnenos , Byzantine general and rebel against Emperor Constantine VIII.
• Nikephoros Bryennios († 1136), Byzantine military, politician and historian
• Nikephorus Xiphias , Byzantine general and rebel against Emperor Basil II.

Scholars

• Nikephoros Blemmydes , Greek monk, medic and educator
• Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopulos , Greek church historian
• Nikephoros Gregoras (* approx. 1295, † 1360), Byzantine historian, theologian, writer and astronomer
• Nikiforos Diamandouros , Greek sociologist and historian
• Nikiforos Vrettakos , Greek writer

painter

• Nikiforos Lytras , Greek painter

cleric

• Nikephorus I (Patriarch) († 828), Patriarch of Constantinople, historian
• Nikephorus I (Jerusalem) , Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem (1020)
• Nikephorus II (Patriarch) Patriarch of Constantinople (1260–1261)
• Nikephoros (Protosynkellos) (around 1596), Protosynkellos of the Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople
• Nikephoros Tur († after 1599), Orthodox Archimandrite of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra (1593-1599)
• Nikephorus of Alexandria , Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria (1639–1645)
• Nikephoros (Cyprus) , Archbishop of Cyprus
• Nikephorus of Miletus , Bishop of Miletus
• Nikiforos (Bishop) (1931–2009), Bishop of the Greek Orthodox Church

Saints

• Nikephoros Cantacuzenos , Ukrainian saint
• Nicephorus of Antioch , martyr and Orthodox saint

family name

• Clemens Nikephorus , co-founder of the Sokolnitzki monastery
• Hermann Nicephorus († 1625), baroque philosopher