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THEODORU9. THEODORUS. 104 7
De la Bigne, fol. Paris, 1575, and again, in vol. iv. other, a Jacobite, who was patriarch from A. D. 727
of the second edition, fol. Paris, 1589. In the to 738. (Le Quien, Oriens Christianus, vol. ii. col.
Lectiones Antiquae of Canisius, vol. iv. 4to., Ingol- 445, 457.)
stadt, 1604 (vol. ii. pt. ii. p. 463, ed. Basnage), 5. Of ALEXANDRIA (3). Theodore, a deacon of
appeared a Latin version by Franciscus Turrianus, the church at Alexandria, who at the Council of
of three others (Nos. 27-29, in Gretser); and Chalcedon, A. D. 451, presented a AieXXAos, Livery soon after Gretser published, with the Hode- bellus, against the patriarch of Alexandria, Dioscogus of Anastasius Sinaita (4to. Ingolstadt, 1606), rus, charging him with having grievously oppressed
forty-two pieces of Theodore, including all those him (Theodore), on account of the regard in which
which had been given in the Bibliotheca and by he had been held by Cyril, the predecessor of
Canisius. They were given in the Greek (except Dioscorus. The document is given in the various
Nos. 18, 25, and 32) and in a Latin version, partly editions of the Concilia (e. g. vol. iv. col. 395, ed.
by Gretser himself, but chiefly by Turrianus, and Labbe, vol. ii. col. 321, ed. Hardouin), in the Acta
in a very few short pieces by Genebrardus. The Concilii Chalcedoaensis, actio iii. (Cave, Hist. Litt.
Latin version was reprinted in the Bibliotheca Pa- ad ann. 451, vol. i. p. 443; Fabric. Bibl. Grace.
truam, vol. iv. ed. Paris, 1609-1610, vol. ix. p. ii. vol. x. p. 386.)
Cologne, 1618, and vol. xvi. ed. Lyon, 1677: the 6. Of ALEXANDRIA (4). A monk who flouGreek text and Latin version were both given in rished about the commencement of the sixth centhe Auctarium of Ducaeus to the edit. of Paris, tury. Cave improperly places him in the seventh.
1624, in vol. xi. of the edit. Paris, 1654, and in the He belonged to that branch of the Monophysite
collected edition of Gretser's works, vol. xv. fol. body called Theopaschitae, and is known by his
Ratisbon, 1741. The Greek text of No. 18 was controversy with Themistius, another Theopaschite
published by Le Quien in his edition of Damas- monk, who is charged with having broached the
cenus (vol. i. p. 470, fol. Paris, 1712), with the heresy of the Agnoetae, a sect so called from their
version of Turrianus, a little altered: the Greek of affirming that Christ knew not the time of the
No. 25 was published by Cotelerius, in a note to Day of Judgment. Theodore attacked Themistius
the Constitutiones Apostolicae, lib. v. c. 7, in his in a work of which Photius has given an account.
Patres lApostolici, fol. Paris, 1672 (vol. i. p. 31 0, As in this controversy Theodore was on the same
ed. Leclerc, fol. Amsterdam, 1724): the Greek of side as the orthodox Church, it was probably by
No. 32 has never been printed. (Cave (who has some other writing that he incurred the condemnaconfounded him with Theodore of Caria [No. 20]), tion of the emperor Justinian, as mentioned by FaI-ist. Lilt. ad ann. 867, vol. ii. p. 54; Fabric. Bibl. cundus. (Phot. Bibl. Cod. 108; Facundus HerGraec. vol. x. p. 364, &c.; Gretser (who also iden- mian. Pro Defensionze trium Chlpitulorum, lib. ii.
tifies him with Theodore of Caria), Epistol. Dedicat. c. 3; Fabric. Bibl. Grace. vol. vi. p. 794, vol. x.
Opusculis Abucarae praefixa; Bayle, Dictionnaire, pp. 372, 710; Cave, Hist. Lilt. ad ann. 601, vol.
s. v. Abucaras; Le Quien, Opera Damasceni, and i. p. 573.)
Oriens Christianus, 11. cc.) 7. Of AMASIA. Possevino (Apparatus Sacer,
3. Of ALANIA. There is extant in MS. at vol. ii. p. 462, ed. Cologne, 1608) mentions two
Vienna, and perhaps elsewhere, a Sermon on the works, Explicatio ad Ecclesiastein et Caczticum CanBurial of Christ, In Jesa Sepulturam, by Theodore, ticorum, and Dogmatica Panoplia adversus Judaeos,
bishop of Alania, which Cave conjectures to be a Armenios et Saracenos, as written by Theodore,
city not far from Constantinople. But as the bishop of Amasia in Pontus. Le Quien (Oriens
Vienna MS. contains also e. discourse or letter ad- Chiistianus, vol. i. col. 528) notices both works in
dressed by Theodore to the Patriarch of Constan- speaking of Theodore, who was bishop of Amasia
tinople, in which are recorded his apostolic labours at the time of the fifth General Council, A. D. 553,
among the Alani, and his subsequent consecration where his signature appears among those of the
as bishop of Alania, it is evident that the name subscribing prelates; but if, as its title indicates,
Alania designates the country of the Alani, between the Panopliac is a defence of orthodox Christianity
the Euxine and Caspian seas, north of the Caucasian against Mohammedanism, the work cannot be of so
range. Kollar has given a brief extract from this early a date. No other Theodore is known among
discourse. The time in which Theodore lived is the bishops of Amasia. (Possevin.; LeQuien, Il.cc.)
not clear; but the mention of his apostolic labours 8. ANAGNOSTES ('AvayvC'yvYir-s) or LECTOR,
among the Alani indicates that he first converted the READER, an ecclesiastical historian, generally
them to the belief of Christianity, which may have supposed to have written in the reign of the embeen in the time of Justinian, when the neighbour- peror Justin I., or his successor Justinian 1. Noing tribe of the Abasgi were converted. He must, thing of his personal history is known, except that
as the Apostle of the Alani, have been a different he held the subordinate ecclesiastical post of reader
person from the Theodorus who was bishop of at Constantinople, and, as Suidas states, in the
Alania in the thirteenth century. (Kollar, Supple- great church (Suidas, s. v. ). Suidas states that
ment. ad Lambecii Commentar. de Biblioth. Caesa- he brought down his history to the time of Justiraea, lib. i. col. 254, &c.; Le Quien, Oriens Clris- nian I.: and though nothing in the extant fragtianus, vol. i. col. 1348; Allatius, De Symaeon. ments of his works leads us to a later time than
Scriptis, p. 82; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. x. p. 372; the accession of Justin I., we may not unreasonCave, Hist. Litt. vol. ii. Dissert. Prima, p. 19.) ably admit the correctness of Suidas' statement, so
4. Of ALEXANDRIA (1,2). There were two pa- far as to place the composition of the history of
triarchs of Alexandria of the name of Thendore: Theodore in the reign of Justinian. Theodore is
one surnamed Scribo (icpifoowv), a Melchite, or of quoted by Joannes Damascenus and by Theothe orthodox Greek Church, who, after a patri- phanes, and in the Acta of the second Nicene
archate of two years, perished apparently in the (seventh General Council), all in the eighth century.
troubles occasioned by the revolt of Egypt and He was the author of two works on ecclesiastical
Africa against the usurper Phocas, A. D. 609; the history, which were sometimes both comprehended
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