Neilos Doxapatres

Neilos Doxapatres was a Byzantine Greek monk, theologian and writer active in Constantinople and Sicily in the first half of the twelfth century. Before becoming a monk he held a series of ecclesiastical and legal offices in Constantinople, including deacon of Hagia Sophia, patriarchal notary, protoproedros of the protosynkelloi and nomophylax, the title given to the chief legal official responsible for the imperial law school and legal doctrine. After relocating to Sicily he served at the court of King Roger II, where a surviving 1146 document concerning the church of the Martorana in Palermo bears his signature, and he wrote a treatise on the five patriarchs, commissioned by the Norman king, addressing the structure of ecclesiastical governance. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/