NIKEPHOROS

Nikephoros or Nicephorus (, "Bringer of Victory") is the name of:

★ Nikephoros I, Byzantine emperor 802-811.

★ Nikephoros II Phokas, Byzantine emperor 963-969.

★ Nikephoros III Botaniates, Byzantine emperor 1078-1081.

★ Patriarch Nikephoros I of Constantinople, Byzantine writer and patriarch, 758-829, author of a famous ''Stichometry''.

★ Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos, Greek ecclesiastical historian, c. 1320 AD.

★ Nicephorus, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch, 1084 - 1090

★ Patriarch Nicephorus of Alexandria, Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria between 1639 and 1645.

★ Nikephoros Bryennios, Byzantine general, statesman and historian, 1062–1137

★ Nikephoros Ouranos, the Byzantine strategos of Antiocheia from 999 to circa 1010

★ Nicephorus Gregoras, Byzantine historian, c. 1295-1360

★ Nicephorus of Mount Athos (1300) Hesychast monk who first wrote out the sitting posture of staring at the heart or naval during the Hesychast prayer.
Place names:

★ Nikiforos, a municipality in Greece