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святитель и чудотворец Николай, архиепископ Мирликийский (One of the most popular minor saints commemorated in the Eastern and Western churches); Николай I Великий (Pope from 858 to 867, master theorist of papal power, considered to have been the most forceful of the early medieval pontiffs, whose pontificate was the most important of the Carolingian period and prepared the way for the 11th-century reform Popes); Николай I Мистик (Byzantine patriarch of Constantinople, 901-907; 912-925); Николай II (Pope from 1058 to 1061, a major figure in the Gregorian reform); Папа Римский Николай III (Pope from 1277 to 1280. A political realist, he accepted the idea that every cardinal was the agent of a political interest, and he exalted his own family, the Orsini, who acquired increasing influence in church policy and administration); Патриарх Николай III Кирдиниат Грамматик (Eastern Orthodox patriarch of Constantinople, 1084-1111, theologian and liturgical scholar noted for combatting doctrinal heresy and composing sacramental prayer texts for the Byzantine liturgy); Николай IV (Pope from 1288 to 1292, the first Franciscan pontiff. In a bull of 1289 he granted half of the church's revenues and a share in its administration to the College of Cardinals, thereby increasing their importance in church and Papal States affairs); Николай V (Influential Renaissance Pope -reigned 1447-55 - and founder of the Vatican Library); Николай (V) (Last imperial antipope, whose reign - May 1328 to August 1330 -in Rome rivalled the pontificate of Pope John XXII at Avignon; V) |
