Nicetas () was an 11th-century Greek clergyman. A deacon of St. Sophia,

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, he was a nephew of the bishop of Serres or Serrae in Macedonia. Eventually he became Metropolitan of Heraclea (Pontus), at the end of the eleventh century. He was a prolific writer. He is sometimes confused with

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Works

He compiled

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