On April 4, 814, Theodore's uncle Platon died in the Studios Monastery after a long illness.

Theodore's letter containing suggested monastery reform rules is the first recorded stand against slavery.

His disciple, Naukratios, recovered control of the monastery after the end of iconoclasm in 842, and throughout the remainder of the ninth century the Studite abbots continued Theodore's tradition of opposition to patriarchal and imperial authority.

Following the death of Emperor Leo IV ( r. 775 – 780 ) in 780, Theodore's uncle Platon, who had lived as a monk in the Symbola Monastery in Bithynia since 759, visited Constantinople, and persuaded the entire family of his sister, Theoktiste, to likewise take monastic vows.

Shortly thereafter Leo had Theodore's poems removed from the Chalke Gate and replaced by a new set of " iconoclastic " epigrams.

Theodore's years of exile, regular fasting, and exceptional exertions had taken their toll, and in 826 he became quite ill.

Having taken the imperial throne and made the 11-year old John IV ineligible for the emperorship by blinding him, Michael VIII Palaiologos had Theodore's three other daughters married off to Italian and Bulgarian foreigners, so their descendants could not threaten his own children's claim to the imperial succession.

Until recently, scholarship on Theodore had focused on only the latter period since it is attested in Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English, and also in Stephen of Ripon's Vita Sancti Wilfrithi, whereas no source directly mentions Theodore's earlier activities.

His cousin, Charles II August, Duke of Zweibrücken, therefore had a legitimate legal claim as Charles Theodore's heir presumptive.

The Electress had provided him with a son, who had immediately died, but Charles Theodore's particular penchant for secret liaisons, most of whom were French actresses that he had raised to the status of countess, had produced several natural children.

During this period doubtless the foundations were laid of Theodore's understanding of the Bible and ecclesiastical doctrine, and he was imbued for life with the principles of scriptural interpretation which Diodore had inherited from an earlier generation of Antiochenes, and with the peculiar views of the Person of Christ into which the master had been led by his antagonism to Apollinaris of Laodicea.

Cyril, who had once spoken favourably of some of Theodore's works ( Facund.

The African delegation objected not only to a decree which seemed to negate the authority of the councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon, but also violated the sanctity of the dead ; they had no particular interest in Theodore's doctrine or method of interpretation.

They had no children together, but when Theodore's brother, Frederick Frelinghuysen ( 1788-1820 ) died, Theodore adopted his son, Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen ( 1817 – 1885 ), who would later become Secretary of State.

Theodore and his sons made their way back to Thessalonica and incited a revolt against Theodore's brother Manuel Komnenos Doukas who had ruled the city since 1230.

Kermit Roosevelt, Theodore's son, had recently gotten engaged to a socialite named Belle and didn't plan on joining the expedition but did on the insistence of his mother to protect his father.

Charles Theodore's heir, Maximilian Joseph, Duke of Zweibrücken ( on the French border ), brought all the Wittelsbach territories under a single rule in 1799.

In March 1761, shortly after his death, Pope Clement XIII rejected the succession of Clemens August's brother Cardinal John Theodore of Bavaria as Archbishop and Prince-Elector of Cologne since the pope entertained some doubt on John Theodore's " moral conduct ".

Theodore's great treatise on the Incarnation belongs to this period according to Gennadius, and possibly also more than one of his commentaries on the Old Testament.

in verba Juliani, praef ); and not long afterwards prefaced his translation of Theodore's ecthesis with a still more violent attack on him as the precursor of Nestorianism.

It is almost certainly to this cause that we owe the preservation in a Latin dress of at least one-half of Theodore's commentaries on Paul.

Facundus ( x. 4 ) speaks of Theodore's " innumerable books "; John of Antioch, in a letter quoted by Facundus ( ii. 2 ), describes his polemical works as alone numbering " decem millia " ( i. e. muria ), an exaggeration of course, but based on fact.

But this translation gives us the substance of Theodore's interpretation of the apostle Paul, and so we have a typical commentary from his pen on a considerable portion of each Testament.

It also appears that Henana rejected Theodore's idea that the book of Job was a book of fiction composed by a Hellenist, and rejected his commentary on Job.

The line stating " where I first received my lessons, nature's school " is a possible link, reflecting Theodore's obsession with nature during his youth and his belief that it held the answers to life, a topic he wrote of on several occasions.

Elliott was Theodore's best-man on October 27, 1880, on Theodore's first marriage to Alice Roosevelt.

It is later discovered that he is Theodore's father.

It has often been assumed that Theodore's family belonged to the iconodule party during the first period of Byzantine Iconoclasm.

Saint Theodore's Church is the most interesting Byzantine relic in Avdat.

Although there is no definite proof of the date of his birth, it has been suggested by Ukrainian historian Mykhaylo Maksymovych that it is likely 27 December 1595 ( St. Theodore's day ).

One day, the trio discover that one of Theodore's former assistants, Rudolph Gore-Slimey (), has stolen his design for a race car engine, and has become a world champion Formula One driver.

Theodore's interpretation of the Eucharistic rite is directed towards the triumph over the power of death brought about by the Resurrection.

Theodore's father, known in the family as " Thee ", was a New York City philanthropist, merchant, and partner in the family glass-importing firm Roosevelt and Son.

Mittie's brother, Theodore's uncle, James Dunwoody Bulloch, was a United States Navy officer who became a Confederate Navy commander and secret agent in Britain who was most responsible for the destruction of the United States merchant fleet and procuring ships and supplies to run through the Union blockade.

Theodoret likes to choose the best among various interpretations before him, preferably Theodore's, and supplements from his own.

The brother of Theoktiste, Theodore's uncle Platon, was himself an important official in the imperial financial administration.

It appears likely that Platon at this time put forth Theodore's name, but Nikephoros, a layman who held the rank asekretis in the imperial bureaucracy, was chosen instead.

Therefore, relations between the Studite Abbot and the Patriarch appear to have been initially untroubled, an impression which is reinforced by the choice ( 806 / 807 ) of Theodore's brother, Joseph, as Archbishop of Thesaloniki.

In the winter of the same year, Theodore's brother Joseph visited him in Constantinople, but refused to attend the Christmas mass in Hagia Sophia, at which the emperor, the patriarch, and the priest Joseph would have been present.

Once more Theodore's opinion prevailed, although this time with serious consequences ; Krum attacked and took Mesembria in November of the same year.

Theodore's activities in his final years are somewhat difficult to trace.

Elements of Theodore's Testament were incorporated verbatim in the typika of certain early Athonite monasteries.

** St. Theodore's Catholic School