Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Photius.
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.
2006 March 5, Kelly-Anne Suarez, “The Spirit Moves This Man of Faith”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Oct 20242 more examples
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.
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, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2008Instead, 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.
2019 February 6, Carlotta Gall, “In a First, Greek Premier Visits Shuttered Seminary in Turkey”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2019
Origin
- Ancient GreekΦώτιος
- EnglishPhotios
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Φώτιος (Phṓtios).
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Photios. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Photios
“Photios.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Photios. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Photios,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Photios.
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