Theodota

Venerable Theodota was a sister of Saint Gregory Palamas, archbishop of Thessalonica, in the fourteenth century. She belongs to the Palamas family, whose members were canonized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate in 2009: the parents Constantine and Kallone (Cali), the brothers Theodosius and Macarius, and the sisters Epicharis and Theodota.

The family held an eminent place in the Byzantine Empire: the father, Constantine, was a senator at the emperor's court, and after his death the children and the mother chose the monastic life. Their common commemoration is on 14 November (new style), the day of Saint Gregory Palamas.