# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/symeon-the-metaphrast
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:14:04.970Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/symeon-the-metaphrast"
name: "Symeon the Metaphrast"
slug: "symeon-the-metaphrast"
description: "Symeon or Simeon, distinguished as Symeon Metaphrastes (Latin) or Symeon the Metaphrast, was a Byzantine writer and official regarded as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church. His feast day is celebrated on 9 or 28 November. He is best known for his 10-volume Greek menologion, a collection of saints' lives."
tagline: "10th century Byzantine historian and hagiographer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Symeon_Metafrast.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "900"
deathDate: "0987-11-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.6
  historical:           19.76573333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump