Theodora of Caesareia

Venerable Theodora of Caesarea was a Byzantine nun of the eighth century, a native of Cappadocia. The Orthodox Church commemorates her on 30 December by the old calendar, which is 12 January by the new.

According to the Greek source, she was born in the time of the emperor Leo III (717 to 741). Her father was the patrician Theophilus, and her mother was also called Theodora. Her synaxarion preserves a version in which she married Christopher, son of the emperor Constantine V. It is not known why she then became a nun at the monastery of Saint Anne at Rigidion. The story of the marriage seems rather legendary, because Christopher was born around 757, so at best he was twenty-⁠five years younger than she.

A Serbian source says that after many labours in the monastery of Saint Anne she died in the year 755.