Germanus Explained
Germanus or Germanos (Greek) may refer to:
People
- Lucius Trebius Germanus, governor of Roman Britain around 126
- Germanus (died c. 290), possibly apocryphal martyr-saint tortured at the Pula Arena
- Germanus (4th century), Spanish martyr-saint (see Servandus and Cermanus)
- Germanus of Auxerre (378–448), bishop of Auxerre who founded the Carolingian abbey of Saint-Germain en Auxerre named for the same saint
- Germanus of Man (410–475), saint
- Germain of Paris (Latin: Germanus) (496–576), bishop of Paris, Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox saint
- Germanus of Capua (died 541), archbishop from 519
- Germanus (cousin of Justinian I) (died 550), general of the Byzantine Empire
- Germanus (Caesar), son-in-law of Tiberius II Constantine
- Germanus (patricius) (died 605/606), leading senator in the reign of Emperor Maurice
- Germanus (magister militum under Phocas) (died 604)
- Germanus of Granfelden (612–675), saint
- Germanus I, Patriarch of Bulgaria (972–990)
- Germanus of Winchester (died c. 1013) English abbot
- Nicolaus Germanus, 15th-century cartographer
- Henricus Martellus Germanus, 15th-century cartographer
- Moses Germanus or Johann Peter Spaeth (died 1701), a German convert to Judaism
- Gyula Germanus (1884–1979), a Hungarian writer and islamologist
Greek clerics
- Saint Germanus (died c. 733), 39th Patriarch of Constantinople
- Germanus II of Constantinople (died 1240), 95th Patriarch of Constantinople
- Germanus III of Constantinople (died 1267), 101st Patriarch of Constantinople
- Germanos III of Old Patras (1771–1826), metropolitan bishop of Patras and participant in the Greek War of Independence
- Germanus IV of Constantinople (died 1853), 213th Patriarch of Constantinople
- , Archbishop of Athens (1889–1896)
- Germanus V of Constantinople (died 1918), 225th Patriarch of Constantinople
- Germanos Karavangelis (died 1935), Metropolitan Bishop of Kastoria, Amaseia, Ioannina, and Exarch of Central Europe.
Other uses
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