Theodor Studites

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Theodor Studites, mosaic from the monastery Nea Moni in Chios, 11th century.

Theodoros Studites ( Middle Greek Θεόδωρος ὁ Στουδίτης ; * around 759 in Constantinople ; † November 11, 826 in the Tryphon Monastery ) was a Byzantine monk , abbot and doctor of the church .

Theodoros came from a respected and wealthy family. He apparently received an above-average education. His family devoted themselves to monastic life around 780 and built a monastery from their own resources, which Theodor's uncle Plato headed. It was he who ordained Theodor as a monk and enforced his ordination (789/90). Soon after, Plato gave his nephew Theodore the management of the house monastery. When Theodor joined his uncle's protest against a new imperial wedding in 795, he was banished for half a year. Theodor was soon again in imperial favor and was probably entrusted with the management of the Studion monastery in 798 .

In 806, however, the Studites with Plato and Theodore at their head came into conflict with the Patriarchate of Constantinople , the ecclesiastical head of Byzantium. Patriarch Nikephorus I was a particular enemy of the Studites and was supported by the emperor. In 809 the Studites were condemned by a synod and Theodor had to go into exile. Only after the death of Emperor I. Nikephoros was Theodor again protrude as abbot of the monastery studio and enjoyed the favor of Emperor Michael I .

During the Byzantine Iconoclasm , which broke out again during the reign of Emperor Leo V , Theodor was imprisoned again. After Leo's murder at the end of 820, he was released again, but had to flee repeatedly during the civil war that followed (see Thomas the Slav ). He later resettled in Constantinople. He died on November 11, 826 in the Tryphon Monastery at Cape Akritas .

The Church of Venerable Theodor Studites is in Moscow.

expenditure

  • Theodoros Studites: Iambi on various objects. Edited by Paul Bacon. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1968 (Supplementa Byzantina), ISBN 3-11-001349-5 .
  • Theodoros Studites: Theodori Studitae Epistulae, Vol. 1-2. Edited by Georgios Fatouros. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1992 (Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae - Series Berolinensis 31), ISBN 3-11-008808-8 .

literature

  • Theodoros Studites. In: Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine Period Online , No. 7574.
  • Thomas Pratsch: Theodoros Studites (759-826) - between dogma and pragma: the abbot of the studio monastery in Constantinople in the field of tension between patriarch, emperor and his own claims. Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M. u. a. 1998.

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personal data
SURNAME Theodor Studites
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Theodor Studita; Theodor von Studium; Theodor von Studion; Θεόδωρος ο Στουδίτης
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saint
DATE OF BIRTH at 759
PLACE OF BIRTH Constantinople
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 826