Certainty: 1 The preacher Niphon was punished for heresy
He was a man with little secular education, but great knowledge of religion. He taught widely, but his teaching was heretical in the eyes of the patriarch Michael II Kourkouas, who had him condemned by a synodal decision. He had his beard shaven and was fettered at the ankles and imprisoned. However, when Michael was no longer patriarch, Niphon began to recover his position
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Certainty: 2 Condemnation of the preacher Niphon led to accusations against the patriarch Kosmas II Certainty: 2
Certainty: 3 A council in the Blachernai palace deposed the patriarch Kosmas II Certainty: 3