Saints

• Theodore of Kythera

  Theodore (c. 870/890 – 922) is the patron saint of the island of Kythera (Cerigo), off the southern tip of the Peloponnese. Born at Koroni i...

• Theodore of Ostrog

  Theodore, Prince of Ostrog in Volhynia, was the founder of the house of Ostrozhsky and one of the great Orthodox magnates of the fifteenth-c...

• Theodore of Perge

  Theodore was a young Christian of Perge in Pamphylia, on the south coast of Asia Minor, who was crucified for refusing to sacrifice to the i...

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  Theodore of Rostov and Suzdal

  Theodore, a Greek by birth, was consecrated in 991 or 992 — within a few years of the baptism of Rus' — as the first bishop of Rostov, and s...

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  Theodore of Tarsus

  Theodore of Tarsus (c. 602–690) was a Byzantine Greek monk of Cilicia who, at the age of sixty-six, was consecrated by Pope Vitalian as Arch...

• Theodore of the Jordan

  Theodore, called the Wonderworker, was a hermit of the wilderness of the Jordan in the sixth century, one of the great generation of Palesti...

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  Theodore the Branded

  Theodore the Branded (Graptos, c. 775 – c. 840/841) was a Palestinian monk of the Lavra of Saint Sabbas, priest, hymnographer, and confessor...

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  Theodore the Recruit

  Theodore the Recruit (†c. 306) — Tyron, "the recruit" or "the conscript," from the Latin tiro — was a young soldier newly enrolled in the Ro...

• Theodore the Sanctified

  Theodore the Sanctified (c. 314 – 368) was the beloved disciple of Pachomius the Great and, after him, the man who held the Pachomian koinon...

• Theodore the Silent of the Kiev Caves

  Theodore the Silent (thirteenth century) was a monk of the Kiev Caves Lavra, one of the venerable fathers who rest in the Far Caves (the Cav...

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  Theodore the Studite

  Theodore the Studite (759–826) was the great abbot of the monastery of Stoudios at Constantinople, the foremost monastic reformer and confes...

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  Theodore the Sykeote

  Theodore the Sykeote (†22 April 613) was the greatest of the holy men of Galatia: born in the village of Sykeon, the son of an innkeeper, he...

• Theodoretus of Antioch

  Theodoretus (†c. 362) — Theodoret the Presbyter — was a priest of the church of Antioch and keeper of its sacred vessels, martyred under Jul...

• Theodoritus of Kola

  Theodoritus (c. 1481 – 17 August 1571) spent twenty years among the pagan Lapps of the Kola peninsula, at the very edge of the inhabited wor...

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  Theodosia of Constantinople

  Theodosia was a nun of the monastery of the Martyr Anastasia at Constantinople who, when soldiers of the emperor Leo III the Isaurian came t...

• Theodosia of Tyre

  Theodosia was a young maiden of Tyre, about eighteen years old, who during the persecution of Maximinus Daza went up to the confessors await...

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  Theodosius of Antioch

  Theodosius of Antioch (mid-fourth century – c. 412) was a hermit and monastic founder of the Syrian coast, one of the ascetics whose lives T...

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  Theodosius of Chernigov

  Theodosius (Uglitsky) of Chernigov (c. 1630s–1696) was one of the last great hierarchs of pre-Petrine Rus' and Ukraine, Archbishop of Cherni...

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  Theodosius of Trebizond

  Theodosius, Metropolitan of Trebizond (fourteenth century – 1392), was an Athonite monk who became a hierarch of the empire of Trebizond. Bo...

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  Theodosius of Trnovo

  Theodosius of Trnovo (†1363) was the foremost Bulgarian hesychast of the fourteenth century — a monk and spiritual father, disciple of Grego...

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  Theodosius of the Kiev Caves

  Theodosius (Feodosy Pechersky, †3 May 1074) is the father of Russian monasticism: the second founder, with Antony, of the Kiev Caves monaste...

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  Theodosius the Cenobiarch

  Theodosius the Great (c. 424 – 529) is honoured by the Church as the Cenobiarch — the father and lawgiver of cenobitic, or communal, monasti...

• Theodosius the Great

  Theodosius the Great (347–395) was the Roman emperor under whom the Nicene faith became, in law and in fact, the faith of the Empire — the l...

• Theodosius the New of the Peloponnese

  Theodosius, called the New to distinguish him from the great Palestinian cenobiarch, and the Healer (ἰαματικός) from the miracles at his tom...

• Theodosius the Younger

  Theodosius II (401–450), called the Younger to distinguish him from his grandfather Theodosius the Great, reigned over the Eastern Roman Emp...

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  Theodota of Bithynia

  Theodota (†c. 304) was a young Christian widow of Nicaea in Bithynia, a friend and helper of the great-martyr Anastasia the Deliverer-from-B...

• Theodota of Nicaea

  Theodota was a wealthy Christian woman of Cappadocia who suffered a long martyrdom ending at Nicaea around the year 230, in the reign of Ale...

• Theodota, Mother of the Unmercenaries

  Theodota was the widowed mother of the holy unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian of Mesopotamia, commemorated with her sons on November 1. Native...

• Theodotus and Theodota of Caesarea

  Theodotus and Theodota are two martyrs of Caesarea in Cappadocia who suffered under the emperor Trajan — the calendars give the year as 108...

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  Theodotus of Ancyra and the Seven Virgins

  Theodotus was an innkeeper of Ancyra in Galatia — a married layman, a wine-seller, whose tavern became in the Great Persecution the hiding-p...

• Theodotus of Cyrenia

  Theodotus (†c. 320/326) was Bishop of Cyrenia (Kyrenia) in Cyprus and a confessor of the faith under the emperor Licinius. A native of Galat...

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  Theodotus, Asclepiodota and Maximus of Adrianople

  Theodotus, Asclepiodota and Maximus were martyrs of Thrace under the emperor Galerius (305–311). Maximus and Asclepiodota, eminent citizens...

• Theodotus, Theodote and Companions

  A company of six martyrs — Theodotus, the woman Theodote, Golindouch, Diomedes, Eulampius and Asclepiades — arrested in the persecution of T...

• Theodoula and Companions

  Theodoula and her companions were martyrs of Anazarbus in Cilicia during the Great Persecution under Diocletian, about the year 304. Theodou...

• Theodulus the Eparch

  Theodulus was the eparch — the imperial city-prefect — of Constantinople in the early fifth century, one of the highest civil dignitaries of...

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  Theognostus of Kiev

  Theognostus (died 1353) was a Greek of Constantinople who served for twenty-five years as Metropolitan of Kiev and All Russia, the chief hie...

• Theoleptos of Philadelphia

  Theoleptos, Metropolitan of Philadelphia in Lydia for nearly forty years, is the hinge between the hesychasm of the thirteenth-century Athon...

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  Theopemptus and Theonas

  Theopemptus, bishop of Nicomedia, and Theonas the former magician (†c. 303) were among the earliest martyrs of the Great Persecution under D...

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  Theophan the Recluse

  Theophan the Recluse (1815 – 1894) — born George Vasilievich Govorov — was a Russian bishop, ascetic, and spiritual writer, and one of the m...

• Theophanes and Pansemne

  Theophanes was a young man of Antioch, born of pagan parents, who was widowed three years after his marriage, came to Christ, was baptised,...

• Theophanes of Mount Diabenos

  Theophanes the Confessor and Faster (†c. 300) was an ascetic of the generation before the great persecutions ended, born of pagan parents, w...

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  Theophanes the Branded

  Theophanes the Branded (Graptos, c. 778–845) was a Palestinian monk of the Lavra of St. Sabbas, hymnographer, and confessor of the holy icon...

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  Theophanes the Confessor

  Theophanes the Confessor (c. 759/760 – 817/818) was a wealthy Byzantine noble of Constantinople who renounced rank and riches to become a mo...

• Theophanes the Merciful

  Theophanes the Merciful was a householder of Gaza in Syria Palaestina, remembered for a single, complete virtue: he gave away everything. He...

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  Theophanes the New of Naousa

  Theophanes, called the New to distinguish him from the older saints of his name and the Wonderworker for what was done through him, was a si...

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  Theophano the Empress

  Theophano (c. 866 – c. 893/897) was the first wife of the Byzantine emperor Leo VI the Wise and one of the most beloved of the imperial sain...

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  Theophilus the Confessor

  Theophilus the Confessor (†716, as the calendars transmit the date) was a monastic of Mount Selention who suffered for the holy icons at the...

• Theophilus the Myrrh-gusher

  Theophilus (†1548) was a learned Macedonian who served the Ecumenical Patriarchate, refused a metropolitan see, and ended his life as a herm...

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  Theophilus the New

  Theophilus the New (†c. 784) was a Byzantine military commander and senator, honoured by the emperor and set at the head of the imperial for...

• Theophylact of Nicomedia

  Theophylact (mid-8th century – c. 842/845) was bishop of Nicomedia in Bithynia and one of the leading confessors of the second Iconoclasm. A...