Theodosios the Koinobiarch

Theodosios the Koinobiarch (* around 424 in Magariasso , Cappadocia , today Turkey; † January 11, 529 in Palestine ) became a monk in Palestine at a young age, first in a monastery in Jerusalem , later as a hermit on a hill near Bethlehem . After living in the desert for 30 years, he founded three koinobia (places of community life) between Bethlehem and Jerusalem around 465, from which a large monastery complex named after him emerged.

The form of communal monastic life in solitude was called coinobitism . That is why Theodosius still bears the nickname "the Koinobiarch" (board member, abbot of the Koinobites).

He officially performed the task of head of the hermits from 494, when he was appointed Abbot General of all coinobitic monks in the area by Patriarch Salustios of Jerusalem.

After his death Theodosius was probably buried in a grave niche in one of the caves.

Two lives tell of him , one of his pupil Theodoros of Petra , the other of Kyrillos of Skythopolis .

literature

Ekkart Sauser : Theodosius Cönobiarch. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 11, Bautz, Herzberg 1996, ISBN 3-88309-064-6 , Sp. 996-997. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Web links

Church site from Münster

Individual evidence

↑ Johannes Karayannopulos, Günter Weiss: Source studies for the history of Byzantium (324-1453) (= writings on the intellectual history of Eastern Europe. Vol. 14). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1982, ISBN 3-447-02244-2 , p. 291, no.109.

personal data
SURNAME	Theodosios the Koinobiarch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Monk and hermit
DATE OF BIRTH	at 424
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cappadocia , Turkey
DATE OF DEATH	January 11, 529
Place of death	Palestine

[1] Johannes Karayannopulos, Günter Weiss: Source studies for the history of Byzantium (324-1453) (= writings on the intellectual history of Eastern Europe. Vol. 14). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1982, ISBN 3-447-02244-2 , p. 291, no.109.