Agapetus
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Agapetus may refer to:
- Agapetus (physician)Agapetus (physician)Agapetus was an ancient Greek physician, whose remedy for the gout is mentioned with approbation by Alexander of Tralles and Paul of Aegina. He probably lived between the third and sixth centuries AD, or certainly not later, as Alexander of Tralles, by whom he is quoted, is supposed to have...
, an ancient Greek doctor - Pope Agapetus IPope Agapetus IPope Saint Agapetus I reigned as pope from May 13, 535, to April 22, 536. He is not to be confused with another Saint Agapetus, an Early Christian martyr with the feast day of August 6th.-Family:...
(died 536) - Pope Agapetus IIPope Agapetus IIPope Agapetus II was Pope from May 10, 946 until his death in 955, at the time when Alberic II , son of Marozia, was governing the independent republic of Rome under the title of "prince and senator of the Romans."...
(died 955) - Agapetus of Seleucia, a fourth century metropolitan bishop of Seleucia ad Calycadnum
- Agapetus (deacon)Agapetus (deacon)Agapetus was a deacon of the church of Hagia Sophia at Constantinople , reputed tutor of Justinian, and author of a series of exhortations in seventy-two short chapters addressed to that emperor...
, a sixth century deacon - Agapetus (genus), a genus in the insect family of GlossosomatidaeGlossosomatidaeGlossosomatidae is a family of the class Insecta and order Trichoptera....
- Agapetus of PecherskAgapetus of PecherskAgapetus of the Kiev Caves or Agapetus of Pechersk , was an Orthodox Christian saint and doctor, monk of Kiev Pechersk Lavra. He was born in Kiev and was later taught and admitted to monastic vows by Saint Anthony of Kiev...
(died 1095), a saint of Eastern Orthodox Church