Nicetas of Constantinople

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Nicetas was Patriarch of Constantinople from 766 until 780.

An iconoclast, Nicetas was appointed Patriarch by the Byzantine emperor Constantine V "Copronymus" - also an iconoclast.

Nicetas was immensely unpopular with the iconophile segment of the population who viewed him as a mere mouthpiece of the emperor.

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