Niketas 55 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M/L IX |
| Religion | Christian |
| Locations | Klaudiopolis (Honorias) (officeplace); Klaudiopolis (Honorias) |
| Occupation | Bishop |
| Titles | Bishop, Klaudiopolis (office); Metropolitan, Klaudiopolis (Honorias) (office) |
| Seal Sources | Laurent, V., Le corpus des sceaux de l'empire byzatin, V, 1-3, L'église (Paris, 1963-72); II, L'administration centrale (Paris, 1981) |
Niketas 55 was metropolitan bishop of Klaudiopolis; owner of a seal dateable to the second half of the ninth century: Laurent, Corpus V 1, no. 474. Obv. : Virgin holding medallion of Child, between monograms of Θεοτόκε and βοήθει, with the invocative formula Πανύ[μνητε Θ]εοτόκε βο[ή]θε[ι]. Rev.: [+]Νικήτᾳ - <μ>ητροπολ(ίτῃ) - <Κ>λαβδιουπ[(όλεωσ)] - (καὶ) δούλ(ῳ) Χ(ριστο)ῦ. Perhaps identical with the author of an Alphabet in political verse (BZ XVI, 1907, pp. 482, 483, 491, 492) (see Laurent, op. cit., pp. 348-9, note).
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