Germanus

Germanus is the Latin term referring to the Germanic peoples. A probably related meaning for the word in Latin is "brother", cognate to gernan "seed" (whence Spanish hermano "brother"). [1]

People named Germanus (Latin) or Germanos (Greek) include

• Trebius Germanus, governor of Roman Britain around 126
• Germanus, 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
• Germain of Paris (496–576), also Saint Germain of Paris
• 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 (general under Phocas) (d. 604)
• Germanus of Granfelden (612–675), Saint
• Germanus of Man (410–475), Saint
• Germanus I, Patriarch of Bulgaria c. 972 – c. 990
• Germanus of Winchester (died c. 1013) English abbot
• Nicolaus Germanus, 15th century cartographer
• Henricus Martellus Germanus, 15th century cartographer
• Moses Germanus (died 1701) or Johann Peter Spaeth, a German convert to Judaism
• Vangelis Germanos, Greek song writer and singer
• Gyula Germanus (1884–1979) was a Hungarian writer and islamologist of Jewish origin, member of the Hungarian Parliament and member of multiple Arabic academics of sciences, who made significant contributions to the arabic language science, language history and culture history

Greek clerics

• Saint Germanus I (died ~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
• Germanus II of Athens, Archbishop of Athens (1889–1896)
• Patriarch 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.

Institutions

• Sanctus Germanus, a Titular See in the Roman Catholic Church

See also

• Germain (disambiguation)
• Germaine (disambiguation)
• German (disambiguation)
• Germán (disambiguation)
• Germania
• Germanicus (disambiguation)
• Saint Germanus (disambiguation)