Nicetas () was an 11th-century Greek clergyman. A deacon of St. Sophia,
Constantinople, he was a nephew of the bishop of
Serres or Serrae in
Macedonia
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* North Macedonia, a country in southeastern Europe, known until 2019 as the Republic of Macedonia
* Macedonia (ancient kingdom), a kingdom in Greek antiquity
* Macedonia (Greece), a traditional geographic reg ...
. Eventually he became
Metropolitan
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* Metropolitan area, a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories
* Metropolitan borough, a form of local government district in England
* Metropolitan county, a typ ...
of
Heraclea (Pontus), at the end of the eleventh century. He was a prolific writer.
He is sometimes confused with
Nicetas Paphlagon
Nicetas or Niketas () is a Greek given name, meaning "victorious one" (from Nike "victory").
The veneration of martyr saint Nicetas the Goth in the medieval period gave rise to the Slavic forms: ''Nikita, Mykyta and Mikita''
People with the name N ...
.
Works
He compiled
catena
Catena (Latin for chain) or catenae (plural) may refer to:
Science
* ''Catena'' (fly), a genus in the family Tachinidae
*Catena (linguistics) is a unit of syntax and morphology, closely associated with dependency grammars
* Catena (computing), nu ...
s on
Matthew, Luke and John.
[A. Di Berardino, ''Patrology'', tr. Adrian Walford, (2006) p. 646]
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References
Biblical exegesis
11th-century Eastern Orthodox bishops
11th-century Byzantine writers
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