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Born c.580 • Turkey
Died August 13, 662 • Georgia
Subjects Of Study Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite • Church Father • Neoplatonism
Nicetas Stethatos
Greek theologian
John Of Scythopolis
Byzantine theologian
Justus of Ghent: Saint Augustine
St. Augustine
Christian bishop and theologian
Desiderius Erasmus
Erasmus
Dutch humanist
St. Gregory of Nyssa
Saint Gregory of Nyssa
Byzantine philosopher and theologian
Adolf von Harnack
Adolf von Harnack
German theologian and church historian
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
Syrian author
Isaac Of Stella
English philosopher and theologian
John Scotus Erigena
Irish philosopher
Sergius of Resaina
Syrian theologian
Gregory of Sinai
Greek Orthodox monk
Gennadios II Scholarios
patriarch of Constantinople
Isaac of Nineveh
Syrian bishop
Theodosius Of Alexandria
Egyptian patriarch
Euthymius I
Orthodox patriarch
Demetrius Cydones
Byzantine scholar and statesman
Saint Germanus I
Byzantine patriarch
Bessarion
Byzantine theologian
Saint Theophanes the Confessor
Byzantine monk
Philotheus Kokkinos
patriarch of Constantinople