Nicetas of Remesiana (335–414) was the bishop of the Dacians in what is now Serbia. Remesiana (Bela Palanka in Antic time) is a municipality of Serbia. ... Events November 7 - Athanasius is banished to Trier, on the charge that he prevented the corn fleet from sailing to Constantinople. ... Events Ataulf, king of the Visigoths, marries Galla Placidia, the sister of Roman Emperor Honorius. ... A bishop is an ordained member of the Christian clergy who, in certain Christian churches, holds a position of authority. ... Dacia, in ancient geography the land of the Daci, a subtribe of the Getae, was a large district of Central Europe, bounded on the north by the Carpathians, on the south by the Danube, on the west by the Tisa (Tisza river, in Hungary), on the east by the Tyras... Jump to: navigation, search This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...
He is the patron saint of Romania and not to be confused with the Patriarch Nicetas of Constantinople. In several forms of Christianity, but especially in Roman Catholicism, a patron saint has special affinity for a trade or group. ... Originally a patriarch was a man who exercised autocratic authority as a pater familias over an extended family. ...
Nicetas, known only from Latin sources who call him papa Nicetas, is said to have been the Bogomil bishop of Constantinople.
His purpose was apparently to reinforce the dualist beliefs of the Cathars of these regions, and, in particular, to throw doubt on the validity of their spiritual lineage or ordo, the sequence of consolamenta by which they were linked to the Apostles.
Nicetas instructed the assembly that, just as the Seven Churches of Asia did not interfere with one another's independence, neither did the modern bishoprics of the Bogomils, and nor must the bishoprics of the Cathars.
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