Niketas 20 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | L VIII |
Dates | 787 (taq) / 787 (tpq) |
PmbZ No. | 5410 |
Religion | Christian; Iconophile |
Locations | Dadybra (Paphlagonia) (officeplace); Dadybra (Paphlagonia); Nikaia |
Occupation | Bishop |
Titles | Bishop, Dadybra (Paphlagonia) (office) |
Textual Sources | Nikaia, Second Council of (Seventh Ecumenical Council, a. 787) (Mansi XII-XIII) (conciliar) |
Niketas 20 was bishop of Dadybra in Paphlagonia; in 787 he attended the Second Council of Nikaia (the Seventh Ecumenical Council) and was probably present at all eight sessions, from 24 September to 23 November 787: Mansi XII 998-XIII 486. In the lists of those present at the first and seventh sessions he is styled Νικήτα ἐπισκόπου Δαδύβρων: Mansi XII 998, XIII 369. Elsewhere he is styled Νικήτας ὁ ὁσιώτατος ἐπίσκοπος Δαδύβρων or similar: Mansi XII 1103, XIII 145. At the second session he supported the traditional veneration of icons as described in statements from pope Hadrian I (Hadrianos 1) and condemned iconoclasts: Mansi XII 1103. At the fourth session he subscribed the statements read out from the Fathers in support of the veneration of icons: Mansi XIII 145. His name is missing from the list of those who subscribed the statement of the faith adopted by the Council at the seventh session, probably through a textual error, since he was present at the session; his name may be missing in a lacuna at Mansi XII 392.
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