NICETAS THE MARONITE. - Byzantine theologian of the 12th century. A native of Maronea in Thrace, he held several ecclesiastical offices in Constantinople. He flourished in the time of Manuel Comnenus (1143-80), but was already metropolitan of Thessalonica in 1133.

I suoi celebri Dialoghi sulla processione dello Spirito Santo furono già citati nel 1177 da Ugo Eteriano (De haeresibus, capp. 18-19; PL 202, 388-89). In them the knowledge of the Latins is perfect, and it is conceded (an important point in Byzantine theology) that a thorough study of the Fathers leads to equality between the Greek formula διά τοῦ Τίοῦ and the Latin ex Patre Filioque. Nevertheless, it is maintained that this word must disappear from the traditional Creed. The first of the six Dialogues and fragments of the others were edited by Hergenröther (PG 139, 169-222) and by N. Festa; the following three in Bessarione (9-14 [1912-16]), while the fifth and sixth Dialogues still remain unpublished in Vat. gr. 1115 and in Laurent. gr. plut. XXXI, 37.

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BIBL.: A. Palmieri, N. di Maronea e i suoi Dialoghi sulla processione dello Spirito Santo, in Bessarione, 3rd series, 9 (1912), pp. 80-98; M. Jugie, N. de Maronée, in Echos d'Orient, 26 (1927), pp. 408-16; id., s. v. in DThC, XI, coll., 473-77.

Emmanuele Candal

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