* Theophilus Goon, also known as Mr Goon and Clear-Orf – the village policeman, who is outwitted by the five children in every story.

Goon ", he is identified in places as Theophilus Goon.

Theodora, widow of the Emperor Theophilus ( died 842 ), acted as regent during the minority of her son Michael III, who was said to have been introduced to dissolute habits by her brother Bardas.

In Greece, he encountered an Ionian theologian, who has been identified as Athenagoras of Athens ; while in the east, he was taught by an Assyrian, sometimes identified with Tatian, and a Jew, who was possibly Theophilus of Caesarea.

Theophilus died on 15 October 412, and Cyril was made Pope or Patriarch of Alexandria on 18 October 412, against the party favouring Archdeacon Timothy.

There was an opinion in the Church that viewed that perhaps the Council understood the Church of Alexandria correctly, but wanted to curtail the existing power of the Alexandrine Hierarch, especially after the events that happened several years before at Constantinople from Pope Theophilus of Alexandria towards Patriarch John Chrysostom and the unfortunate turnouts of the Second Council of Ephesus in AD 449, where Eutichus misled Pope Dioscorus and the Council in confessing the Orthodox Faith in writing and then renouncing it after the Council, which in turn, had upset Rome, especially that the Tome which was sent was not read during the Council sessions.

Born in Boston, Colony of Massachusetts, to David Yale ( 1613 – 1690 ) and Ursula Knight ( 1624 – 1698 ), Yale was the grandson of Ann Lloyd ( 1591 – 1659 ), who after the death of her first husband, Thomas Yale ( 1590 – 1619 ) in Chester, Cheshire, England, married Governor Theophilus Eaton ( 1590 – 1658 ) of New Haven Colony.

The Serapeum was certainly destroyed by Theophilus in 391, and the Museum and Library may have fallen victim to the same campaign.

Although the Gospel survives in anonymous form, it is considered that the name was known to the addressee, Theophilus.

In fact, “ Luke perceives himself to be a Jew .” Finally, Rebecca Denova concludes her book with these words: “ Luke-Acts, we may conclude on the basis of a narrative-critical reading, was written by a Jew to persuade other Jews that Jesus of Nazareth was the messiah of Scripture and that the words of the prophets concerning ‘ restoration ’ have been ‘ fulfilled .’” Finally it should be noted that Strelan in 2008 not only concluded that Theophilus was Jewish but also that Luke was a priest.

An alliance was soon formed against him by Eudoxia, Theophilus and others of his enemies.

Theophilus Evans, an early critic of the movement, even wrote that it was " the natural Tendency of their Behaviour, in Voice and Gesture and horrid Expressions, to make People mad.

Masaccio returned in 1427 to work again in the Carmine, beginning the Resurrection of the Son of Theophilus, but apparently left it, too, unfinished, though it has also been suggested that the painting was severely damaged later in the century because it contained portraits of the Brancacci family, at that time excoriated as enemies of the Medici.

For example, his method of getting up in the morning incorporates a bed that tips over to wake up its owner, an invention that was exhibited at The Great Exhibition of 1851 by Theophilus Carter, and is similar to a device sold in Japan that is used to ensure the sleeper awakens on time by inflating a pillow under their normal pillow and rolling the person, thus waking them up.

His last novel, Theophilus North, was published in 1973, and made into the film Mr. North in 1988.

Monk was represented by Theophilus Nix, the second African-American member of the Delaware Bar Association.

There are strong connections with the medieval Theophilus legend which was recorded in the 13th century.

The 25 December Nativity of Christ was attested very early by Hippolytus of Rome ( 170 – 236 ) in his Commentary on Daniel 4: 23: “ The first coming of our Lord, that in the flesh, in which he was born at Bethlehem, took place eight days before the calends of January, a Wednesday, in the forty-second year of the reign of Augustus, 5500 years from Adam .” Another early source is Theophilus Bishop of Caesarea ( 115-181 ):" We ought to celebrate the birth-day of our Lord on what day soever the 25th of December shall happen.

Shelton's chief rivals were Theophilus Metcalfe's Stenography or Short Writing ( 1633 ) which was in its " 55th edition " by 1721, and Jeremiah Rich's system of 1654, which was published under various titles including The penns dexterity compleated ( 1669 ).

Both these transept portals were richly embellished with sculpture ; the south portal features scenes from the lives of St Stephen and of various local saints, while the north portal featured the infancy of Christ and the story of Theophilus in the tympanum, with a highly influential statue of the Virgin and Child in the trumeau.

Originally settled by Puritans as part of the town of New Haven, Hamden was purchased by Theophilus Eaton and the Reverend John Davenport in 1638 from the local Quinnipiack Native American tribe.

The area now known as East Haven was obtained by Puritan settlers Reverend John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton on November 29, 1638, as part of the purchase of New Haven from Sachem Momauguin of the local Quinnipiack tribe.

Songs like Theophilus Beckford's Easy Snappin ( recorded in 1956 ) were played as exclusives by Sir Coxson's Downbeat sound system for years before they were actually released in 1959-only to become major local hits, also pressed in the UK by Island Records and Blue Beat Records as early as 1960.

Some still say, however, that Theophilus simply traded thirteen coats to the local Indians for seven townships of land ; but what is a fact is that in the following December of 1638 he and his company did also purchase the usage of a large area of land from Monotowese, son of the sachem at Mattabeseck, which was 10 miles in length and 13 in breadth.

The earliest extant Christian writings on the age of the world according to the biblical chronology are by Theophilus ( AD 115-181 ), the sixth bishop of Antioch, in Apology to Autolycus ( Apologia ad Autolycum ), and by Julius Africanus ( AD 200-245 ) in his Five Books of Chronology.

* Professor Theophilus Branestawm, the protagonist of the Professor Branestawm series of children's books

* Dr. Theophilus Tanner, a character from the Deathlands series of books

The church had a series of distinguished Rectors in the second half of the 16th and first half of the 17th century, including Myles Coverdale ( Rector 1564-66 ), John Young ( Rector 1566-92 ), Theophilus Aylmer ( Rector 1592-1625 ), ( Archdeacon of London and son of John Aylmer ), and Cornelius Burges ( Rector 1626-41 ).

* Dr. Theophilus " Doc " Algernon Tanner in the Deathlands series of novels has carried two different LeMat revolvers.

Written over a 50 year period, between 1933 and 1983, the children's books feature as protagonist the eponymous inventor, Professor Theophilus Branestawm, who is depicted throughout the books as the archetypal absent-minded professor.

* 1584 – Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician ( d. 1640 )

In Luke 1: 3-4, the author states that he decided to “ write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, so that you may know the truth concerning the things about which you have been instructed .” Theophilus is Greek for lover of God and it is suggested that he may either be an individual who recently converted to the faith or a Roman official of whom the church is seeking acceptance from.

At any rate affairs in that region, including the future of the church of Ephesus ( 20: 28 – 30 ), are treated as though they would specially interest " Theophilus " and his circle ; also an early tradition has Luke die in the adjacent Bithynia.

The author opens with a prologue, usually taken to be addressed to an individual by the name of Theophilus ( though this name, which translates literally as " God-lover ", may be a nickname rather than a personal appellation ) and references " my earlier book "— almost certainly the Gospel of Luke.

* Theophilus G. Pinches, The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria in " btm " format

The 12th century German monk Theophilus described how preheated crucibles were one sixth filled with powdered calamine and charcoal then topped up with copper and charcoal before being melted, stirred then filled again.

German brass making crucibles are known from Dortmund dating to the 10th century AD and from Soest and Schwerte in Westphalia dating to around the 13th century confirm Theophilus ' account, as they are open-topped, although ceramic discs from Soest may have served as loose lids which may have been used to reduce zinc evaporation, and have slag on the interior resulting from a liquid process.

At the end of the 2nd century, it is accepted at Antioch by Theophilus ( died c. 183 ), and in Africa by Tertullian ( c. 160 – 220 ).

A few years after his birth, his maternal uncle Theophilus rose to the powerful position of Patriarch of Alexandria.

These monks ' violence had already been used, 15 years before, by Theophilus ( Cyril's uncle ) against the " Tall Brothers "; furthermore, it is said that Cyril had spent five years among them in ascetic training.

This is only 35 years before John Thomas ' 1849 lecture tour in Britain which attracted significant support from an existing non-Trinitarian Adventist base, particularly, initially, in Scotland where Arian Socinian and unitarian ( with a small ' u ' as distinct from the Unitarian Church of Theophilus Lindsey ) views were prevalent.

There were also Alexandrian Jews such as Theophilus, whom Saint Luke the Evangelist addresses in the introductory chapter of his gospel.

* 1744 – John Theophilus Desaguliers, French philosopher ( b. 1683 )

In 1917 Theophilus A. Marryshow founded the Representative Government Association ( RGA ) to agitate for a new and participative constitutional dispensation for the Grenadian people.

The date of the Gospel of Luke is traditionally fixed to some time before the end of the final events of Luke's second volume to Theophilus, Acts, so as early as 59 or 60.