John of Nikiu
Also: John of Nikiou
Born: the year and the place are not known. Died: the year and the place are not known.
Coptic bishop of Nikiu in the Nile Delta who wrote a world chronicle that tells of the Arab conquest of Egypt.
Wrote in Coptic.
Places lived
- 686 to 696Nikiou (near Zawyat Razin, Egypt)bishopyears probable, place probable
Works
1 work, in the order they were written. 1 work can be read here.
- ChronicleA world chronicle from Adam to the Arab conquest of Egypt, which survives only in an Ethiopic version of 1602.82,670 words
How we know the dates and places
- Born not known
- R. H. Charles, The Chronicle of John, Bishop of Nikiu (1916), introduction, https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/nikiu1_intro.htm; History of the Patriarchs (Lives of John III, Isaac and Simon I)
- Place of birth not known
- R. H. Charles, The Chronicle of John, Bishop of Nikiu (1916), introduction, https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/nikiu1_intro.htm; History of the Patriarchs (Lives of John III, Isaac and Simon I)
- Died not known
- R. H. Charles, The Chronicle of John, Bishop of Nikiu (1916), introduction, https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/nikiu1_intro.htm; History of the Patriarchs (Lives of John III, Isaac and Simon I)
After 696. - Place of death not known
- R. H. Charles, The Chronicle of John, Bishop of Nikiu (1916), introduction, https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/nikiu1_intro.htm; History of the Patriarchs (Lives of John III, Isaac and Simon I)
- Nikiou, years probable
- R. H. Charles, The Chronicle of John, Bishop of Nikiu (1916), introduction, https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/nikiu1_intro.htm; History of the Patriarchs (Lives of John III, Isaac and Simon I)
- Nikiou, place probable
- R. H. Charles, The Chronicle of John, Bishop of Nikiu (1916), introduction, https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/nikiu1_intro.htm; History of the Patriarchs (Lives of John III, Isaac and Simon I)