Иоанн епископ гор. Никиу
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John Bishop of Mt. Nikiu (on an island at the western mouth of the Nile) is known as the author of an extensive chronicle written around 700 AD. Chr. For the most part, representing a retelling of similar works by John of Malala and John of Antioch, the chronicle of John of Nikiou has outstanding independent significance for the history of the 7th century and mainly for the history of the Egyptian Jacobite church, of which the author was an outstanding figure. The chronicle was preserved in an Ethiopian (Amharic) translation made in 1601 from a faulty Arabic text, which in turn was also not authentic. According to Zotanber, the publisher and translator of the Ethiopic text, the original was Greek, with the exception of a few sections written in Coptic. According to Neldeke, the entire chronicle was written by John in Coptic.