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Saint Nicephorus was born in Constantinople about the year 758, of pious parents;
his father Theodore endured exile and tribulation for the holy icons
during the reign of Constantine Copronymus (741-775). Nicephorus served
in the imperial palace as a secretary. Later, he took up the monastic
life, and struggled in asceticism not far from the imperial city; he
also founded monasteries on the eastern shore of the Bosphorus, among
them one dedicated to the Great Martyr Theodore.
After the repose of the holy Patriarch Tarasius, he was ordained Patriarch, on
April 12, 806, and in this high office led the Orthodox resistance to the Iconoclasts'
war on piety, which was stirred up by Leo the Armenian. Because Nicephorus championed
the veneration of the icons, Leo drove Nicephorus from his throne on March 13,
815, exiling him from one place to another, and lastly to the Monastery of Saint
Theodore which Nicephorus himself had founded. It was here that, after glorifying
God for nine years as Patriarch, and then for thirteen years as an exile, tormented
and afflicted, he gave up his blameless soul in 828 at about the age of seventy.
Apolytikion in the Fourth Tone:
The truth of things hath revealed thee to thy flock as a rule of faith, an
icon of meekness, and a teacher of temperance; for this cause, thou hast
achieved the heights by humility, riches by poverty. O Father and Hierarch
Nikephoros, intercede with Christ God that our souls be saved.
Kontakion in the
Fourth Tone:
Since thou hast received today the crown of vict'ry from the Heavens at God's
hand, save all them that faithfully now honour thee as a teacher and a faithful
hierarch, O Father Nicephorus.
Source: http://www.goarch.org
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