Theodore the Studite was a theologian and monastic reformer. After being part of the family monastery of Sakkoudion (Bythinia), in ca. 798 he went to Constantinople, where he restored the monastery of Stoudios. There, he founded and then led a cenobitic monastic community, which soon became a strong centre of Byzantine monasticism and was directly involved in the political and religious controversies of Middle Byzantium, first among everything iconomachy. He has been exiled several times. Theodore the Studite's literary works (he wrote ascetic and polemic works, letters, poetry, speeches ans catecheses) show both his monastic ideals - modelled after the rules of Basil the Great - and his ideological positioning - firmly iconodule.
Birth date | (Constantinople) |
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Death date |
(Princes' Island?, Cape Akritas?)
On Princes' Island or near Cape Akritas. |
Activity | Constantinople |
Links | https://portail.biblissima.fr/fr/ark:/43093/pdata41734aaedd6f66e5eb56de69b6185296579e75a4 |
Group of authors | Greece, Minor Asia (including Constantinople), Hagiography (Greek Area) |