Germanus or Germanos ( Greek) may refer to:

People

Lucius Trebius Germanus Lucius Trebius Germanus was a governor of Roman Britain in 127, and suffect consul with Gaius Calpurnius Flaccus, the proconsul of Cyprus in 123, at an uncertain date. He is known from a military diploma published in 1997 that bears the date 20 Aug ...

, governor of Roman Britain around 126 *Germanus (died c. 290), possibly apocryphal martyr-saint tortured at the Pula Arena *Germanus (4th century), Spanish martyr-saint (see Servandus and Cermanus) *

Germanus of Auxerre Germanus of Auxerre ( la, Germanus Antissiodorensis; cy, Garmon Sant; french: Saint Germain l'Auxerrois; 378 – c. 442–448 AD) was a western Roman clergyman who was bishop of Autissiodorum in Late Antique Gaul. He abandoned a career as a h ...

(378–448), bishop of Auxerre who founded the Carolingian abbey of Saint-Germain en Auxerre named for the same saint *

Germanus of Man Saint Germanus of Man ( Manx: ''Carmane''; 410 AD, Brittany – c. 474, Normandy), also known as Saint Germanus of Peel, was the first Bishop of the Isle of Man. Born in Brittany in the early fifth century, he travelled to Ireland to study with ...

(410–475), saint * Germain of Paris (Latin: Germanus) (496–576), bishop of Paris, Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox saint *

Germanus of Capua Germanus (died 541) was the bishop of Capua from 519 or shortly before until his death. He played a major role in bringing to an end the Acacian schism, the first major schism that divided the Christian church between east and west. After his deat ...

(died 541), archbishop from 519 * Germanus (cousin of Justinian I) (died 550), general of the Byzantine Empire *

Germanus (Caesar) Germanus was a ''Caesar'' of the Byzantine Empire. He married Charito, a daughter of Tiberius II Constantine and Ino Anastasia. According to Michael Whitby, Germanus was a patrician and governor of the praetorian prefecture of Africa. He was chos ...

, son-in-law of Tiberius II Constantine *

Germanus (patricius) Germanus, called "patricius" (Greek: πατρίκιος), was a leading member of the Byzantine Senate during the reign of Maurice (emperor), Maurice.Martindale, Jones & Morris (1992), pp. 531–532 Family Other than a wife called Leontia by Th ...

(died 605/606), leading senator in the reign of Emperor Maurice *

Germanus (magister militum under Phocas) Germanus ( el, Γερμανός; died 604) was a Byzantine general who served under Emperor Phocas (r. 602–610) in the early stages of the Byzantine-Sassanid War of 602–628. Biography Germanus is possibly the same as the ''dux'' of Phoenice, ...

(died 604) * Germanus of Granfelden (612–675), saint *Germanus I, Patriarch of Bulgaria (972–990) *

Germanus of Winchester Germanus (sometimes Germanus of Winchester, died circa 1013) was a medieval English abbot and Benedictine monk. He travelled to Rome in about 957 and became a monk at Fleury Abbey in France. Back in England by 964 he served as a monastic offici ...

(died c. 1013) English abbot *

Nicolaus Germanus Nicolaus Germanus () was a German cartographer who modernized Ptolemy's ''Geography'' by applying new projections, adding additional maps, and contributing other innovations that were influential in the development of Renaissance cartography. N ...

, 15th-century cartographer *

Henricus Martellus Germanus Henricus Martellus Germanus ( fl. 1480-1496) was a German cartographer active in Florence between 1480 and 1496. His surviving cartographic work includes manuscripts of Ptolemy's ''Geographia'', manuscripts of ''Insularium illustratum'' (a descri ...

, 15th-century cartographer *Moses Germanus or Johann Peter Spaeth (died 1701), a German convert to Judaism * Gyula Germanus (1884–1979), a Hungarian writer and islamologist

Greek clerics

* Saint Germanus (died c. 733), 39th Patriarch of Constantinople * Germanus II of Constantinople (died 1240), 95th Patriarch of Constantinople * Germanus III of Constantinople (died 1267), 101st Patriarch of Constantinople * Germanos III of Old Patras (1771–1826), metropolitan bishop of Patras and participant in the Greek War of Independence * Germanus IV of Constantinople (died 1853), 213th Patriarch of Constantinople *,

Archbishop of Athens The Archbishopric of Athens ( el, Ιερά Αρχιεπισκοπή Αθηνών) is a Greek Orthodox archiepiscopal see based in the city of Athens, Greece. It is the senior see of Greece, and the seat of the autocephalous Church of Greece. Its ...

(1889–1896) * Germanus V of Constantinople (died 1918), 225th Patriarch of Constantinople * Germanos Karavangelis (died 1935), Metropolitan Bishop of Kastoria, Amaseia, Ioannina, and Exarch of Central Europe.

Other uses

* Sanctus Germanus, a titular see in the Roman Catholic church * Germanos Group, a Greek holding company ** Germanos (chain of stores)

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