Saints

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  Theodore Trichinas

  Theodore, called Trichinas ("the Hairy" or "the Hair-shirt Wearer"), was an ascetic of the region of Constantinople who, for love of Christ,...

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  Theodore Ushakov

  Theodore Ushakov (1745–1817) was the admiral who created the Russian Black Sea fleet and never lost to it a battle, a ship, or a man into ca...

• Theodore Yaroslavich

  Theodore (1218 – June 5, 1233) was the eldest son of Grand Prince Yaroslav Vsevolodovich and the elder brother of Alexander Nevsky. Set over...

• Theodore and Basil of the Kiev Caves

  Theodore and Basil were monks of the Monastery of the Caves at Kiev who were tortured to death in 1098 by Prince Mstislav Svyatopolkovich ov...

• Theodore and John the Varangians

  Theodore, a Varangian who had taken service in Byzantium and been baptised there, and his young son John, were killed by a pagan mob at Kiev...

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  Theodore of Alexandria

  Theodore of Alexandria is remembered in the Byzantine synaxaria as a bishop of that city and a martyr: a bold preacher whom the pagans seize...

• Theodore of Antioch

  Theodore of Antioch was a young confessor of the reign of Julian the Apostate (361–363). A youth of about fifteen, he took part in returning...

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  Theodore of Constantinople

  Theodore I (†c. 686/687) was Archbishop and Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in the difficult decade after the Sixth Ecumenical Counci...

• Theodore of Cyrene

  Theodore, bishop of Cyrene in the Libyan Pentapolis, was a calligrapher — a copyist who wrote out the books of the Church with his own hand...

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  Theodore of Edessa

  Theodore, called the Sabbaite from the Palestinian lavra in which he spent most of his life, was a native of Edessa in Mesopotamia who was o...

• 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,...