En lector, librum damus vere aureum, planeque scholasticum, quo continentur haec

By this name, there were many writers, Theologians, Fathers, Bishops, and Martyrs, most of them men excelling in the name of piety, doctrine, and confession. Nicephorus mentions a certain Nilus, where he deals with the prefects of the greatest episcopal sees and other divine men excelling in virtue and doctrine, and he names him an athlētēn athlete/champion, that is, a contender and a venerable fighter. And again another, who was a bishop in Egypt, and because he was burned by fire with many other holy men on account of the confession of his doctrine.

We also read that another Nilus was Archbishop of Thessaloniki, a learned man, and not at all favorable to the Papacy, because in his many writings he most sharply refuted both idolomania and the pride by which he exalted himself above God and the Church. A Sermon of his still exists, clearly explaining that there is no other cause for the current dissension of the Latin and Greek Church than that the Papacy is unwilling to grant a legitimate trial of the controversy to a universal council: but he wants to sit alone as master and arbiter of the controversy, while wanting others to be obedient disciples: and this is most alien to the laws and actions of the apostles and fathers. There is also his sermon on the origin of the Pope. There is also his clear and brief response to the Latins, like a certain manual, proposed to those who wish to fight against them. Against the tyranny of the Pope and the Latins. On life in Christ. We have seen all these manuscripts at a friend’s house, in a large and ancient volume, which either he himself, or others to whom this task will be given, will one day make common with the students.

A little book by the same bishop concerning the primacy of the Roman pontiff was also recently published in Germany. He deals in it with the primacy of the Pope, which he refutes from the most ancient councils and other old monuments in such a way as to show that it is not of divine right, but only granted by fathers and emperors: and yet that the power of his preeminence is not as great as the pope now usurps for himself by no right. When that Nilus lived is not certainly established. He lived surely after the times of Charlemagne, the first emperor of the Germans, for he mentions the seventh synod several times.

They say that the Greek history of a certain Nilus is also preserved in the libraries of Italy.

There were many Nilus's. Book 14, chapter 30 of Ecclesiastical history.

Book 7, chapter 16; Eusebius also in his Ecclesiastical history, book 8, chapter 13.

Nilus, Archbishop of Thessaloniki, a most bitter enemy of the Pope. Books of Nilus which still exist in Greek written against the Pope.

The writings of Nilus, Greek manuscripts, not yet published.

The book of Nilus on the primacy of the Roman pontiff published in Greek and Latin.

When Nilus of Thessaloniki lived.

The Greek history of a certain Nilus, manuscript.