Neilos Doxapatres

Neilos Doxapatres was a Byzantine Greek monk, theologian, and writer active in Constantinople and Sicily during the first half of the 12th century.

Biography Born into a native Greek family of Constantinople, he made his career there, where he held various ecclesiastical and secular high offices; deacon of the Hagia Sophia, patriarchal notary, protoproedros of the protosynkelloi and nomophylax. At some point he became a monk, assuming the monastic name "Neilos", and left for Sicily.

Neilos Doxapatres shares a surname with John Doxapatres, a professor of rhetoric who taught in Constantinople in the eleventh century, but their relationship is unknown.

Works Two works by Doxapatres have survived: Treatise on the five patriarchs ( or ), a work of geography and ecclesiastical history commissioned by King Roger II of Sicily. In it, Doxapatres explores Orthodox ideas of the Universal Church, which were far removed from those of the papacy (as well as the other Greek theologians active in southern Italy

Editions of texts Patrologia Graeca 132, col. 1083-1114 (Traité sur les patriarcats) and col. 1292–96. First chapter and final paragraph of Book 1 of De Œconomia Dei, based on a publication by Angelo Mai. Finck, Franz Nikolaus, ed. Des Nilos Doxopatres Τάξις τῶν πατριαρχικῶν θρόνων. Vagharshabad (Etchmiadzine), Mayr Athorho, 1902. Greek and Armenian versions.