Byzantine hymnographers

Christian monk, priest, hymnographer and apologist (675/6-749)

Byzantine emperor

Byzantine Emperor

Kassia, Cassia, Kassiane, or Kassiani (, ; – c.865) was a Byzantine-Greek composer, hymnographer and poet. She holds a unique place in Byzantine music as the only known woman whose music appears in the Byzantine liturgy. Approximately fifty of her hymns are extant, most of which are stichera, though at least 26 have uncertain attribution. The authenticity issues are due to many hymns being anonymous, and others ascribed to different authors in different manuscripts. She was an abbess of a convent in the west of Constantinople.

Byzantine saint

Greek hymnographer

Patriarch of Jerusalem from 634 to 638

Patriarch of Constantinople

Eastern Orthodox saint

Christian bishop and saint

Eastern Orthodox hymnographer

Bishop and hymnographer

Patriarch of Constantinople

Byzantine composer; saint of the Eastern Orthodox Church

Italian saint

Egyptian poet, lawyer, civic administrator

Palestinian Christian monk duo

Byzantine hymnographer and saint

Archbishop of Thessalonica (d. 832)

Byzantine hymnographer and writer on music