Theotimus II

Theotimus II was bishop of Tomis in the second half of the fifth century, attested as shepherd of Dobruja from the year 458. He is named in the Romanian Paterikon and venerated by the faithful, without synodal canonization; the sources available to us give no day of commemoration.

According to the Paterikon he was of Thracian stock, perhaps even from Pontic Dacia. He sought to widen the missionary work of his diocese through priests and monks sent from Tomis into the heart of Carpathian Dacia, the Danube plain, the sub-⁠Carpathian zone and southern Moldavia. The same work of Christianization had begun earlier, in the Banat, Oltenia and Transylvania through Roman colonists, and in the Buzău Mountains and Vrancea through missionaries from Tomis.

He was also a steadfast theologian of the teaching of the Holy Fathers. Emperor Leo I (457-474) asked the bishops for their view of the decisions of the Council of Chalcedon and of the election of the monophysite patriarch Timothy Aelurus at Alexandria. Theotimus answered in Latin that he accepted the decisions of Chalcedon in full and asked for the monophysite hierarch's removal; his reply is regarded as clear and firm.

It seems he was bishop of Tomis for a long time. After his repose, in the last decades of the century, the names of the bishops who followed him were not preserved.