Neilos Kabasilas

Neilos Kabasilas
Born	Nikolaos Kabasilas c. 1290 Thessalonica, Byzantine Empire
Died	c. 1363 Constantinople, Byzantine Empire
Relatives	Nicholas Kabasilas (nephew)
Education
Academic advisor	Gregory Palamas
Philosophical work
Era	Medieval philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Hesychasm
Notable students	Demetrios Kydones
Main interests	Theology
Notable ideas	Defense of Palamism

Neilos Kabasilas (also Nilus Cabasilas; Greek: Νεῖλος Καβάσιλας Neilos Kavasilas; born Nikolaos Kabasilas; c. 1290 – 1363) was a Byzantine theologian who succeeded Gregory Palamas as Metropolitan of Thessalonica (1361–1363). Kabasilas was a Palamite.

Neilos was a teacher of the famed translator Demetrios Kydones. As a theologian, his most important works are a Theological Rule in defense of the essence-energies distinction and a series of discourses against the Filioque (the Latin teaching on the procession of the Holy Spirit).

Neilos, who was called Nicholas as a layman, has often been confused with his nephew, the more famous Nicholas Kabasilas, best known for his Commentary on the Divine Liturgy.

References

• Théophile Kislas (ed.), Nil Cabasilas, Sur le Saint-Esprit. Introduction, texte critique, traduction et notes (Paris, 2001).
• Manuel Candal, Nilus Cabasilas et theologia S. Thomae. De Processione Spiritus sancti (Rome, 1945).