Photios
English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Φώτιος (Phṓtios).
Proper noun
Photios
- Alternative form of Photius.
- 2006 March 5, Kelly-Anne Suarez, “The Spirit Moves This Man of Faith”, in Los Angeles Times[1], Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 3 October 2024:
- As a boy, Majdalani would pass Sunday Mass staring at icons. By his early 20s, he was spending summers in Greece learning from Photios Kontoglou, a man credited with leading a revival of Byzantine-style iconography.
- 2008 June 21, Andrew Louth, “The Rev Professor Henry Chadwick: Historian of the early Church who held the Regius Chairs of Divinity at both Oxford and Cambridge”, in The Independent[2], London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 June 2008:
- He also pursued research on the learned ninth-century Patriarch of Constantinople, Photios, which combined many of his interests, including the relationship between classical learning and Christianity, as well as his by now well-developed interest in the reunion of Christendom.
- 2019 February 6, Carlotta Gall, “In a First, Greek Premier Visits Shuttered Seminary in Turkey”, in The New York Times[3], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 6 February 2019:
- Instead, attention focused on the symbolism of a Greek premier going to the seminary, on the feast day for St. Photios the Great, who founded a monastery on the site in the ninth century, when it was at the heart of the Hellenic world.