Theodore of Pherme

Theodore of Pherme was an Egyptian Christian monk, one of the Desert Fathers, who lived in the desert of Scetis in Lower Egypt in the 4th century. He was a monk at Scetis and may have been trained by Macarius the Great and Pambo. Once he was ordained a deacon but refused the office out of humility and wanted to live in solitude instead. He later moved to Pherme after Scetis was sacked by barbarians in 408. He is venerated as a saint in the early Church; our sources give no day of commemoration.