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Also Known As Nicholas Mystikos
Born 852 • Turkey
Died May 15, 925 (aged 73)
Subjects Of Study Eastern Orthodoxy • marriage
Euthymius I
Orthodox patriarch
Michael VIII Palaeologus
Byzantine emperor
Demetrius Cydones
Byzantine scholar and statesman
John XI Becchus
patriarch of Constantinople
Bessarion
Byzantine theologian
John VIII Palaeologus
Byzantine emperor
Athenagoras I
Greek patriarch
George Acropolites
Byzantine statesman and scholar
Pope Innocent IV
Innocent IV
pope
Isidore Of Kiev
Greek Orthodox patriarch
Ambrose Of Camaldoli
Italian translator
Saint John I
pope
Saint Hormisdas
pope
Pope John XXIII
Saint John XXIII
pope
Pope Leo XIII
Leo XIII
pope
Yves Congar
French priest
Metrophanes Kritopoulos
Greek patriarch and theologian
Dupin, engraving
Louis Ellies Dupin
French historian
Franz Xaver von Baader
German theologian
Johann Adam Möhler, detail of a painting by Eduard Istas, c. 1830.
Johann Adam Möhler
German historian