Theodore the studite biography of michael
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Saint Theodore the Studite
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Saint Theodore the Studite was born in Constantinople in 759 AD. from pious parents and received a rik education. At a very young age he renounced the worldly and became monk in a kloster in Bursa in Asia Minor. He was later ordained presbyter by Patriarch Tarasios and abbot of his kloster. Due to a dispute he had with the emperor Constantine VI, he was exiled to Thessaloniki and in the year 798 AD. returned to Vassilevousa where he became abbot of the Stoudios Monastery.
In 808 AD came into conflict with Patriarch Nikiforos and was exiled to Halki, as a result of which he stopped the great spiritual work offered by the famous kloster of Stoudios. In 811 AD he returned from exile, but when Leo the Armenian, a great persecutor of icons, ascended the imperial
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St. Theodore of Studium
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A zealous champion of the veneration of images and the last geat representative of the unity and independence of the Church in the East, b. in 759; d. on the Peninsula of Tryphon, near the promontory Akrita on 11 November, 826. He belonged to a very distinguished family and like his two brothers, one of whom, Joseph, became Archbishop of Thessalonica, was highly educated. In 781 Theodore was ordainedpriest and in 794 succeeded his uncle. He insisted upon the exact observance of the monastic rules. During the Adulterine heresy dispute (see SAINT NICEPHORUS), concerning the divorce and remarriage of the Emperor Constantine VI, he was banished by Constantine VI to Thessalonica, but returned in triumph after the emperor's overthrow. In 799 he le
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Theodore the Studite
Byzantine monk, abbot, and scholar
Theodore the Studite (Medieval Greek: Θεόδωρος ὁ Στουδίτης; 759–826), also known as Theodorus Studita and Saint Theodore of Stoudios/Studium, was a Byzantine Greekmonk and abbot of the Stoudios Monastery in Constantinople. He played a major role in the revivals both of Byzantine monasticism and of classical literary genres in Byzantium. He is known as a zealous opponent of iconoclasm, one of several conflicts that set him at odds with both emperor and patriarch. Throughout his life he maintained letter correspondences with many important political and cultural figures of the Byzantine empire; this included many women, such as the composer and nun Kassia, who was much influenced by his teachings.
Biography
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[edit]Theodore was born in Constantinople in 759. He was the oldest son of Photeinos, an important financial official in the palace bureaucracy,[5] and Theoktiste, hersel