Nicetas (Bogomil bishop)
From Nicetas, a ' bishop ' or ' Pope ' of the Bogomils no survival data are known; perhaps he was the ' bishop ' of the sect in Constantinople Opel. Around the year 1160 he appears in Lombardy to the consolamentum, to donate the only sacrament of the Cathars or renew and reinforce the dualistic faith. As far as we know, Nicetas was a strict faith within the Bogomils, the so-called Dragoviten, at which appealed to its founder Simon of Dragovitien. The leader of the Lombard ' heretics ', a certain Mark, however, was a rather moderate dualist.
Council of Saint- Félix -de- Caraman
In 1167 (? , Or 1170 ) appears Nicetas ( in the Council report Niquinta called ) on a Katharerkonzil (others use the term ' synod ') in Saint -Félix -de- Caraman, in which were possibly over a hundred participants attended; among them were:
- Robert d' Épernon, ' Bishop ' of the French, that is, North of France
- Markus, ' Bishop ' of Lombardy, namely Italy
- Sicard Cell Aryans, ' Bishop ' of Albi
- Bernard Raimond, ' Bishop ' of Toulouse
- Guiraud Mercier, ' Bishop ' of Carcassonne
- Raimond de Casals, ' Bishop ' from Agen
From the results of the council to turn white little, except that a certain amount of independence and self-reliance was the ' Katharerbistümer ' recognized. In addition, referees have been appointed should determine and monitor the areas of influence of the various ' Cathar bishoprics ' in the south of France.
Some years later ( 1180 ) appeared a certain Petracius in Italy and had doubts about the moral behavior of Simons Dragovitien and thus as to the legality or validity of Nicetas of donated or renewed consolamenta arise. For the heretic movement in Italy, this meant a profound cleavage.
Swell
In a dated around 1200 Italian withholding is reported that a certain Papa Nicheta from Constantinople Opel came into Lombardy, to convince the Katharerbischof Markus assume that the donated consolamentum him was invalid. Then Markus have received a renewal of his consolamentum from the hands of Nicheta.
Everything we know about the council of Saint- Félix -de- Caraman comes from a - supposedly - in 1660 by the otherwise largely unknown jurist and historian Guillaume Besse discovered document from the year 1232/33, which in turn is a copy of a older text was. There remains only the hope of the reliability of the original author, copyist and publicists - Of the two older documents no trace.
In the meager source material can only hope that it is in fact one and the same person ' Papa Nicheta ' from the Italian text and ' Niquinta ' from the southern French tradition.