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Leontius (other)
Leontius or Leontios (died 705) was a Byzantine emperor. Leontius or Leontios may also refer to: * Leontius of Antioch or Leontius the Eunuch (4th century), Patriarch of Antioch 344–358 * Leontius (usurper) (died 488), Byzantine usurper * Leontius of Byzantium (485–543), Byzantine theological writer * Leontius II (archbishop of Bordeaux) (r. 542–564) * Leontius (archbishop of Lyon) (early 6th century) * Leontius of Jerusalem (6th century), Byzantine theological writer historically confused with Leontius of Byzantium * Leontios of Neapolis (7th century), Byzantine theological writer * Łewond (fl. late 8th century), Armenian priest and historian * Leontius of Damascus (fl. late 8th century), Syrian monk and writer * Leontius of Alexandria (11th century), Greek Patriarch of Alexandria 1052–1059 * Leontius of Constantinople (died after 1190), Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople 1189 * Leontius Pilatus Leontius Pilatus (Greek: Λεόντιος Πιλάτος, Leon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leontius
Leontius ( el, Λεόντιος, Leóntios; – 15 February 706), was Byzantine emperor from 695 to 698. Little is known of his early life, other than that he was born in Isauria in Asia Minor. He was given the title of '' patrikios'', and made ''strategos'' of the Anatolic Theme under Emperor Constantine IV. He led forces against the Umayyads during the early years of Justinian II's reign, securing victory and forcing the Umayyad caliph, Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, to sue for peace. In 692, Justinian declared war upon the Umayyads again, and sent Leontius to campaign against them. However, he was defeated decisively at the Battle of Sebastopolis, and imprisoned by Justinian for his failure. He was released in 695, and given the title of ''strategos'' of the Theme of Hellas in Southern Greece. After being released, he led a rebellion against Justinian, and seized power, becoming emperor in the same year. He ruled until 697, when he was overthrown by Apsimar, a '' droung ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leontius Of Damascus
Leontius of Damascus ( 790–821) was a Syrian monk who wrote a biography in Greek of his teacher, Stephen of Mar Saba. It emphasises Stephen's asceticism and thaumaturgy (miracle-working), but is also a rich source for the history of Palestine in the eighth century. It has been translated into English. Life Leontius was born in Damascus in the second half of the eighth century. All that is known about him comes from the autobiographical account he includes in his biography of Stephen. Sometime before 790, he entered the Melkite monastery of Mar Saba. After suffering blasphemous thoughts for two years, which he attributes to a demon, he was healed and even saved from suicide by the spiritual tutelage of Stephen. Stephen later also healed him from a high fever. Stephen eventually accepted Leontius as his disciple and the two wandered the Judaean Desert for four years, Leontius noting down Stephen's teachings. After Stephen's death on 31 March 794, Leontius wrote a biography of h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plato
Plato ( ; grc-gre, Πλάτων ; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a Greek philosopher born in Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. He founded the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning on the European continent. Along with his teacher, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato is a central figure in the history of Ancient Greek philosophy and the Western and Middle Eastern philosophies descended from it. He has also shaped religion and spirituality. The so-called neoplatonism of his interpreter Plotinus greatly influenced both Christianity (through Church Fathers such as Augustine) and Islamic philosophy (through e.g. Al-Farabi). In modern times, Friedrich Nietzsche diagnosed Western culture as growing in the shadow of Plato (famously calling Christianity "Platonism for the masses"), while Alfred North Whitehead famously said: "the safest general characterization of the European philosophical tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leontius Son Of Aglaion
Leontius ( el, Λεόντιος, Leóntios; – 15 February 706), was Byzantine emperor from 695 to 698. Little is known of his early life, other than that he was born in Isauria in Asia Minor. He was given the title of '' patrikios'', and made ''strategos'' of the Anatolic Theme under Emperor Constantine IV. He led forces against the Umayyads during the early years of Justinian II's reign, securing victory and forcing the Umayyad caliph, Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, to sue for peace. In 692, Justinian declared war upon the Umayyads again, and sent Leontius to campaign against them. However, he was defeated decisively at the Battle of Sebastopolis, and imprisoned by Justinian for his failure. He was released in 695, and given the title of ''strategos'' of the Theme of Hellas in Southern Greece. After being released, he led a rebellion against Justinian, and seized power, becoming emperor in the same year. He ruled until 697, when he was overthrown by Apsimar, a '' droung ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leontius (Turkevich)
Metropolitan Leontius (Leonty, secular name Leonid Ieronimovich Turkevich, russian: Леонид Иеронимович Туркевич; August 8, 1876 in Kremenetz, Volhynia – May 14, 1965) was the Metropolitan of the North American Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church from 1950 until his death in 1965. He was succeeded by Metropolitan Irenaeus (Bekish). Leonid Ieronimovich Turkevich was ordained to the priesthood in 1905, and succeeded his father as parish priest of Kremenetz. He was transferred, along with his family, to the United States in October 1906 and became the rector of the newly established Orthodox seminary (St. Platon's) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Fr. Leonid represented the American diocese of the Russian Church at the All-Russian Church Council of 1917–1918 in Moscow, Russia. Fr. Leonid, whose wife had died in 1925, was consecrated Bishop of Chicago in 1933. He was given the name Leonty during his tonsure as a monastic. Archbishop Leonty was elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Leontius Of Monemvasia
Saint Leontius of Monemvasia or Saint Leontius of Achaia ( el, Άγιος Λεόντιος o Μονεμβασιώτης ή Ὅσιος Λεόντιος ὁ ἐν Ἀχαΐᾳ), was an Eastern Orthodox Saint who was born in Monemvasia and lived in asceticism in the region of north Peloponnese in the 15th century. Details about his life are known to us mainly from his first biographer who according to some scholars is the Byzantine philosopher and Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Gennadius Scholarius. The biography entitled in Greek "Ἐγκώμιον τοῦ ὁσίου Λεοντίου τοῦ ἐν Ἀχαΐᾳ, οὗ ἡ μνήμη τελεῖται τῇ ια´ τοῦ Δεκεμβρίου μηνός" is found in the manuscript Gr. II, 186 (=1180) of the Biblioteca Marciana. Saint Leontios was born in Monemvasia in 1377, into an aristocratic family. His mother Theodora was a daughter of the emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos and his father Andrew was the governor o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leontius Pilatus
Leontius Pilatus (Greek: Λεόντιος Πιλάτος, Leontios Pilatos, Italian: Leonzio Pilato; died 1366) was an Italian scholar from Calabria and was one of the earliest promoters of Greek studies in Western Europe. Leontius translated and commented upon works of Euripides, Aristotle and Homer including the Odyssey and the Iliad into Latin and was the first professor of Greek in western Europe. Biography Calabria still had at this time, several centuries after the Norman conquest of the territory from the Byzantine Empire, a large if not majority Greek-speaking and Eastern Rite Christian population. The process of "Latinization", adoption of Latin for legal documents, and adoption of Romance-language dialects in popular speech — was only definitively completed in the 16th century with the suppression of the Greek Basilian monasteries by Rome. Thus Pilatus is assumed by most scholars to have been an ethnic-Greek Calabrian. But the situation is confused by a famous le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leontius Of Constantinople
Leontius Theotokites ( el, Λεόντιος Θεοτοκίτης), (? – after 1190) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople The ecumenical patriarch ( el, Οἰκουμενικός Πατριάρχης, translit=Oikoumenikós Patriárchēs) is the archbishop of Constantinople (Istanbul), New Rome and '' primus inter pares'' (first among equals) among the heads of th ... from February/March to September/October 1189. References Bibliography * * . 12th-century patriarchs of Constantinople 12th-century births {{EasternOrthodoxy-bishop-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leontius Of Alexandria
Leontius served as Greek Patriarch of Alexandria between 1052 and 1059. References * 11th-century Patriarchs of Alexandria Melkites in the Fatimid Caliphate {{EasternOrthodoxy-bishop-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Łewond
Łewond (Armenian Ղեւոնդ) or Leontius was a late 8th-century Armenian priest and historian. Very little is known about his life, except that he was an eyewitness to the events he describes after 774. His historical work was commissioned by Sapuh, son of Smbat VII Bagratuni, the presiding prince of Armenia in 761–775, and covers the years 632 to 789. It is an indispensable source for the early history of Arab rule over Armenia; indeed for the years 662–770 his account is the only testimony of note. It also contains important information on the Arab–Byzantine wars of the period. The work includes a letter supposedly sent by the Byzantine emperor Leo III the Isaurian () to the Umayyad caliph Umar II Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz ( ar, عمر بن عبد العزيز, ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz; 2 November 680 – ), commonly known as Umar II (), was the eighth Umayyad caliph. He made various significant contributions and reforms to the society, and ... () that contains a defenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leontius Of Antioch
Leontius ( el, Λεόντιος, Leóntios; – 15 February 706), was Byzantine emperor from 695 to 698. Little is known of his early life, other than that he was born in Isauria in Asia Minor. He was given the title of ''patrikios'', and made ''strategos'' of the Anatolic Theme under Emperor Constantine IV. He led forces against the Umayyads during the early years of Justinian II's reign, securing victory and forcing the Umayyad caliph, Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, to sue for peace. In 692, Justinian declared war upon the Umayyads again, and sent Leontius to campaign against them. However, he was defeated decisively at the Battle of Sebastopolis, and imprisoned by Justinian for his failure. He was released in 695, and given the title of ''strategos'' of the Theme of Hellas in Southern Greece. After being released, he led a rebellion against Justinian, and seized power, becoming emperor in the same year. He ruled until 697, when he was overthrown by Apsimar, a ''droungarios'' w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leontios Of Neapolis
Leontios ( el, Λεόντιος Νεαπόλεως) was Bishop of Neapolis (Limassol) in Cyprus in the 7th century. He wrote a ''Life'' of John the Merciful, commissioned by the archbishop of Constantia Arcadius; a ''Life'' of Simeon the Holy Fool; a lost ''Life'' of Spyridon, an apologia against the Jews and another apologia in defence of icons. His apologia in defence of the icons was read by the bishop of Constantia, Constantine II at the Second Council of Nicaea that focused on the Byzantine Iconoclasm. His works are considered among the few works giving any insight into the vernacular Greek of Early and Middle Byzantium. He was probably present at the Lateran council in Rome in 649. His work was translated in Latin and published in Patrologia Graeca The ''Patrologia Graeca'' (or ''Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Graeca'') is an edited collection of writings by the Christian Church Fathers and various secular writers, in the Greek language. It consists of 161 volumes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
