Just before coming to the mosque entrance I crossed the street, entered the Hippodrome, and walked ahead to the Obelisk of Theodosius, originally erected in Heliopolis in Egypt about 1,600 B.C. by Thutmose, who also built those now in New York, London and Rome at the Lateran.

* 1896 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1, 500 years after the original games are banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.

Valens died in the Battle of Adrianople in 378 and was succeeded by Theodosius I, who adhered to the Nicene creed.

In the East, Emperor Theodosius I likewise professed the Nicene creed ; but there were many adherents of Arianism throughout his dominions, especially among the higher clergy.

Theodosius I, the emperor of the East, espoused the cause of Justina, and regained the kingdom.

Under Ambrose's major influence, emperors Gratian, Valentinian II and Theodosius I carried on a persecution of Paganism .< ref name = " MacMullen1984p100 "> MacMullen ( 1984 ) p. 100: ‘ The law of June 391, issued by Theodosius [...] was issued from Milan and represented the will of its bishop, Ambrose ; for Theodosius — recently excommunicated by Ambrose, penitent, and very much under his influence < sup > 43 </ sup > — was no natural zealot.

In 394 Alaric served as a leader of foederati under Theodosius I in the campaign which crushed the usurper Eugenius.

He was the eldest son of Theodosius I and his first wife Aelia Flaccilla, and brother of the Western Emperor Honorius.

Arcadius was born in Hispania, the elder son of Theodosius I and Aelia Flaccilla, and brother of Honorius, who would become a Western Roman Emperor.

The earliest known representation of angels with wings is on what is called the Prince's Sarcophagus, discovered at Sarigüzel, near Istanbul, in the 1930s, and attributed to the time of Theodosius I ( 379-395 ).

In 391, Theodosius I decreed that any land that had been confiscated from the church by Roman authorities be returned.

A first wall was erected by Constantine I, and the city was surrounded by a double wall lying about 2 km to the west of the first wall, begun during the 5th century by Theodosius II.

Theodosius I was the last Roman emperor who ruled over an undivided empire ( detail from the Obelisk at the Hippodrome of Constantinople

The Oracle continued until it was closed by emperor Theodosius I in AD 395.

The temple survived until 390 AD, when the Christian emperor Theodosius I silenced the oracle by destroying the temple and most of the statues and works of art in the name of Christianity.

In 325 AD Constantine I abolished the system and restored single emperor rule, but following the death of Theodosius in 395 AD, the empire returned to the system of co-emperors, each with primary authority for half the empire.

The Arian influence grew so strong during his tenure in the Imperial court that it wasn't until the end of the Constantinian dynasty and the appointment of Theodosius I that Arianism lost its influence in the Empire.

He was the younger son of emperor Theodosius I and his first wife Aelia Flaccilla, and brother of the eastern emperor Arcadius.

After holding the consulate at the age of two, Honorius was declared Augustus by his father Theodosius I, and thus co-ruler, on 23 January 393 after the death of Valentinian II and the usurpation of Eugenius.

* 380 – Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I, with co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II, declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to trinitarian Christianity.

It was the first Ecumenical Council held in Constantinople and was called by Theodosius I in 381.

Theodosius committed the matter to Ascholius, the much respected bishop of Thessalonica, charging him to seek the counsel of Pope Damasus I.

Theodosius also founded a University near the Forum of Taurus, on 27 February 425.

* 425 – The University of Constantinople is founded by Emperor Theodosius II at the urging of his wife Aelia Eudocia.

* February 27 – The University of Constantinople is founded by emperor Theodosius II at the urging of his wife Aelia Eudocia.

One of the hospitals was founded by the famous Capuchin philanthropist, Theodosius Florentini ( 1808 – 1865 ), who was for a long time the Romanist cure of Coire, and whose remains were in 1906 transferred from the cathedral here to Ingenbohl ( near Schwyz ), his chief foundation.

The original school was founded in 425 by Emperor Theodosius II with 31 chairs for law, philosophy, medicine, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music, rhetoric and other subjects, 15 to Latin and 16 to Greek.

The origin of the monasteries is explained in a mediaeval hagiography written by Simeon Metaphrastes, in Vita Sancti Theodosii Coenobiarchae in which he wrote that Saint Theodosius founded on the shore of the Dead Sea a monastery with four churches, in each being spoken a different language, among which Bessan was found.

The monastery was founded in 386 AD during the reign of the Emperor Theodosius I ( 375-395 ), Legend has it that two priests undertook its creation after discovering a miraculous icon of the Virgin Mary in a cave on the mountain.

The University of Constantinople, sometimes known as the University of the palace hall of Magnaura ( Πανδιδακτήριον της Μαγναύρας ), was founded in 425 AD in the Eastern Roman Empire ( Byzantine Empire ) under the name of Pandidakterion ( Πανδιδακτήριον ) by the emperor Theodosius II.

The original school was founded in 425 by Emperor Theodosius II with 31 chairs for law, philosophy, medicine, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music, rhetoric and other subjects, 15 to Latin and 16 to Greek.

Cyril is counted among the Church Fathers and the Doctors of the Church, and his reputation within the Christian world has resulted in his titles Pillar of Faith and Seal of all the Fathers, but Theodosius II, the Roman Emperor, condemned him for behaving like a " proud pharaoh ", and the Nestorian bishops at the Council of Ephesus declared him a heretic, labelling him as a " monster, born and educated for the destruction of the church.

When Theodosius ascended to the imperial throne in 380, he began on a campaign to bring the Eastern Church back to Nicene Christianity.

Damasus ' response repudiated Maximus summarily and advised Theodosius to summon a Council of Bishops for the purpose of settling various Church issues such as the schism in Antioch and the consecration of a proper bishop for the see of Constantinople.

Theodorus Lector, in his 6th-century History of the Church 1: 1 stated that Eudokia ( wife of Theodosius II, died 460 ) sent an image of " the Mother of God " named Icon of the Hodegetria from Jerusalem to Pulcheria, daughter of the Emperor Arcadius: the image was specified to have been " painted by the Apostle Luke.

** Theodosius of Kiev ( Eastern Orthodox Church )

He is recognized by the Eastern Orthodox Church as Saint Theodosius.

* Byzantine troops drive the extremist Monophysite party out of Alexandria and establish Theodosius I as patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Canonsburg was home to singers Perry Como and Bobby Vinton, Bill Schmidt, Olympian bronze medalist in the javelin throw in Munich, 1972, the only American to ever medal in that event, and Bishop Theodosius Lazor, Metropolitan Bishop for the Orthodox Church in America.

* Metropolitan Theodosius ( Lazor ), former primate of the Orthodox Church in America ( 1933 – )

Either Theodosius I or Theodosius II had attempted to rename Apros to Theodosiopolis, but only the Catholic Church seems to have adopted the name for any length of time.

On the influence of Pulcheria, Theodosius ruled in favor of Cyril that the title of Theotokos was orthodox, " Under such public pressure Theodosius succumbed to Pulcheria's demands and had Cyril's decree deposing Nestorius read in the Great Church.

The Church grew rapidly until finally legalized and then promoted by Emperors Constantine and Theodosius I in the fourth century as the State church of the Roman Empire.

Edicts of the Emperor Theodosius II and of Valentinian III proclaimed the Roman bishop as " Rector of the whole Church ".

The work has received positive endorsements from such prominent bishops as Metropolitan Maximos of Pittsburgh ( Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America ), Metropolitan Phillip ( Antiochian Orthodox Church ) and Metropolitan Theodosius ( Orthodox Church in America ).

In his City of God, St. Augustine praised Theodosius the Great, Theodosius II's grandfather, who shared his faith and devotion to its establishment, as " a Christian ruler whose piety was expressed by the laws he had issued in favor of the Catholic Church.

After the personal adoption of Christianity by Constantine I ( 312 ), and its installation as the official state religion by Theodosius in 380, Imperial divinity became directly associated with the Christian Church.

Roman emperor Theodosius I built an octagonal church ( the " Theodosian Church " or " Holy Zion Church ") aside the synagogue ( that was named " Church of the Apostles ").