ca 758-828. Byzantium. Offspring of a family of imperial civil servants and later patriarch of Constantinople. Nikephoros began a career as an imperial civil servant like his father, but was consecrated patriarch in 806. In 814, confronted with Leo V's iconoclasm, he remained a steadfast iconodule and hence he had to resign in the spring of 815. He wrote a chronicle in Greek, and also a second short historical work which consists merely of a set of chronological tables. He also wrote theological invectives against the iconoclasts.

Nikephoros' work with the title Ἱστορία σύντομος ἀ…