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He above all had risen to greatness of fortune (i.e. above Michael 61 and Ioannes 289)

ὁ μάλιστα ἐπὶ μέγα τῆς τύχης ἀρθείς.   Psellos: Chronographia VI 195.1-2
A man consummate in virtue and well suited to the high priesthood

ἄνδρα καὶ τὴν ἀρετὴν τελεώτατον καὶ τῇ ἀρχιερωσύνῃ μάλα προσήκοντα.   Psellos: Chronographia VIIa 26.9-10
Shepherded the church for eleven years and seven months

ἐπὶ δέκα ἐνιαυτοὺς ἐφ ᾿ ἑνι καὶ μησὶν ἑπτὰ τὴν ἐκκλησίαν ποιμάναντος.   Zonaras 18.18.3
An erudite man, he had demonstrated his scholarly virtues openly and was equally well versed in law

τὸν λογιώτατον.   Mauropous: Orations 198.8
Was numbered among the outstanding men of the senate

τοῖς ἐξόχοις τῆς συγκλήτου συνηρίθμηται.   Zonaras 18.9.17
A man originating from abroad but living in Constantinople

ἐξ ἑτέρων πατρίδων τὴν σεβαστὴν ῾Ρώμην οἰκήσαντε.   Psellos: Chronographia VI 192.3-4
He and Ioannes 289 were older, Michael 61 much younger than they

ἐκείνω μὲν ἤστην πρεσβυτέρω, ἐγὼ δὲ παρὰ πόλυ ἐκείνων νεώτερος.   Psellos: Chronographia VI 192.5-6
Just as Michael 61 was senior in learning, so too his spiritual progress was comparably advanced and Michael 61 was senior to him and Ioannes 289 in the palace

ἐμοὶ δὲ ἄρα ὥσπερ ὁ λόγος ἐγεγόνει πρεσβύτερος, καὶ τὰ τῆς ψυχῆς, ἵν᾿ οὕτως εἴποιμι, κατὰ τὸ ὅμοιον προὔλαβε, καὶ πρώτως ἐκείνων ἐφεστήκειν τοῖς ἀνακτόροις.   Psellos: Chronographia VI 192.12-15
He preceded (Michael 61) in seizing the better life

ὁ προλαβὼν καὶ τὴν κρείττω προαρπάσας ζωήν.   Psellos: Chronographia VI 198.10.11
A wise and learned man, well known in the imperial administration and most virtuous

καὶ τοῖς πολιτικοῖς περίβλεπτος γεγονώς.   Attaleiates: History 92.16-19 / 70.6-8
His father died while he was young, but his mother lived much longer, surviving into a virtuous and godfearing old age, even predicting the prominence of her son

Psellos Xiphilinos 421
His legal and intellectual training and experience as a monk gave him all the academic and practical skills needed to become an excellent patriarch

Psellos Xiphilinos 421
A wonderful man by his education, wisdom, sagacity and virtue, he hailed from Trebizond and lived as an ascetic on Mount Olympus

τὰ πάντα θαυμαστός, λόγῳ σοφίᾳ καὶ συνέσει καὶ ἀρετῇ.   Glykas 606.15-17
Blessed (had died by the time Kekaumenos was writing his Strategikon)

τὸν μακαρίτην.   Kekaumenos 218.26
His family was only praised (in the encomium of Michael 61) for virtue, not for wealth or prominence

Psellos Xiphilinos 421
A wise and educated man, he became known in public affairs and lived a virtuous life

ἀνὴρ δὲ σοφὸς καὶ παιδεύσεως εἰς ἄκρον ἐληλακὼς κἀν τοῖς πολιτικοῖς περίβλεπτος γεγονὼς καὶ ἀρετῆς εὐφρόνως ἐπιμελούμενος.   Skylitzes Continuatus 117.14-16
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Ioannes VIII Xiphilinos, patriarch of Constantinople E / M XI

οἰκουμενικὸς πατριάρχης (Ioannes 18)

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