Back سيميون الميتافراست ARZ Симеон Метафраст Bulgarian Simeó Metafrastes Catalan Symeon Metaphrastes German Συμεών Μεταφραστής Greek Simeono Metafrasto Esperanto Simón Metafraste Spanish Syméon Métaphraste French Szümeón Metaphrasztész Hungarian Սիմեոն Մետաֆրաստես Armenian
Symeon the Metaphrast | |
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| Venerable, Hagiographer, Logothete | |
| Born | 886-912 (900) Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul, Turkey) |
| Residence | Constantinople |
| Died | November 28, 987 Constantinople |
| Honored in | Eastern Orthodox Church |
| Canonized | 11th century, Constantinople by Eastern Orthodox Church |
| Feast | November 9/November 22 |
| Attributes | Pen, Scroll, Religious habit |
| Major works | Menologium |
Symeon or Simeon (died c. 1000), distinguished as Symeon Metaphrastes (Latin) or Symeon the Metaphrast (Greek: Συμεών ὁ Μεταφραστής, Symeṓn ho Metaphrastḗs), was a Byzantine writer and official regarded as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church. His feast day is celebrated on 9 or 28 November.[1][2] He is best known for his 10-volume Greek menologion, a collection of saints' lives.[3]
- ^ Kazhdan, Alexander; Ševčenko, Nancy Patterson (1991). "Symeon Metaphrastes". In Kazhdan, Alexander (ed.). The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-504652-8.
- ^ Cross, F. L.; Livingstone, E. A., eds. (2009) [2005]. "Simeon Metaphrastes, St (fl. c. 960)". The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3rd rev. ed.). Oxford University Press.
- ^ James Carleton Paget (2010). Jews, Christians and Jewish Christians in Antiquity. Mohr Siebeck. pp. 212ff. ISBN 978-3-16-150312-2. Retrieved 13 November 2012.
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