Alexios Aristenos ( gr, Ἀλέξιος Ἀριστηνός) was ''

oikonomos ''Oikonomos'' ( el, οἰκονόμος, from - 'house' and - 'rule, law'), Latinization of names, latinized œconomus, oeconomus, or economos, was an Ancient Greek word meaning "household manager." In Byzantine empire, Byzantine times, the ter ...

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nomophylax The ''nomophylax'' ( el, νομοφύλαξ, "guardian of the laws") was a senior Byzantine judicial office of the 11th–15th centuries. History The office of ''nomophylax'' was established by Emperor Constantine IX Monomachos (r. 1042–1055) eit ...

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Great Church The term "Great Church" ( la, ecclesia magna) is used in the historiography of early Christianity to mean the period of about 180 to 313, between that of primitive Christianity and that of the legalization of the Christian religion in the Roman ...

Constantinople la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه , alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya (Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis (" ...

. He flourished around 1166 AD, in which year he was present at the Council of Constantinople. He edited a ''Synopsis Canonum'' with

scholia Scholia (singular scholium or scholion, from grc, σχόλιον, "comment, interpretation") are grammatical, critical, or explanatory comments – original or copied from prior commentaries – which are inserted in the margin of th ...

, which is given by Bishop Beveridge in his ''Pandectae Canonum'' in 1672. Other works by him are quoted.

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