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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Saint

Theodore of Theodosiopolis

A bishop of Theodosiopolis, commemorated in the calendar of the Orthodox Church.

Feast
November 28old style December 11
Era
unknown
Order
Hierarchs

Life

Holy Hierarch Theodore of Theodosiopolis was bishop of the city of Theodosiopolis in Armenia. He played a part in the establishment, towards the end of the sixth century, of an Orthodox Armenian patriarchate in the Byzantine part of Armenia, as a counterpart to the Monophysite Armenian one at Dvin. The initiator of this foundation was the Byzantine Emperor Maurice (582 to 602).

The calendar page we rely on says no more about his life. He is commemorated on 11 December (new style). His name is not included in the present Menologion of the Russian Church.

Commemorated the same day November 28