Nicéphore Ier of Constantinople
Saint Nicéphore Ier of Constantinople was writer and patriarch of Constantinople of the April 12th 806 with the March 13rd 815. Festivals the June 2nd (its rest) in the East and the March 13rd (translation of its relics in 874) in Occident.
Born in Constantinople, it grew in an austere, Christian and orthodoxe family at the time of the Iconoclasme. His/her mother was called Eudocie and her Theodore father. He was secretary of the emperor iconoclast Constantin V Copronyme and had been done noticed for his attachment with the holy images. After the death of the holy patriarch Taraise, Nicéphore was selected to succeed to him although it had been only simple laic. It was on April 12th, 806. It accepted the name of the emperor Nicéphore Ier.
It is deposited and exiled by the iconoclast Leon V to have refused to reopen the quarrel of the images the March 13rd 815. It in vain tries to find its load at the time of the advent of Michel II in 820. He dies the June 2nd 829.
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