Nicetas the Patrician

Niketas the Patrician
Icon of St. Nicetas the Patrician
Confessor of the Faith
Born761 or 762
Died6 October 836
Katesia, Byzantine Empire
Venerated inEastern Orthodoxy
Feast13 October
AttributesMonastic Vestment

Saint Nicetas the Patrician (Greek: Νικήτας Πατρίκιος, romanizedNiketas Patrikios; 761/62 – 6 October 836) was a Byzantine monk and a fervent opponent of Byzantine Iconoclasm. He is usually identified with Nicetas Monomachos (Νικήτας Μονομάχος), a eunuch official and general from Paphlagonia active at the turn of the 9th century.

He is honoured as a saint and a Confessor of the Faith by the Eastern Orthodox Church. His feast day is on 13 October.[1]

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