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Theodotos

Theodotos

Male - Yes, date unknown    Has 3 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Theodotos  
    Birth Nakoleia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death Yes, date unknown 
    Person ID I669009  Geneagraphie
    Last Modified 10 Nov 2009 

    Father Michael Melissenos   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Mother NN   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Family ID F294357  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Theodotos had become attached to the court bureaucracy and was a confidant of Emperor Michael I Rangabe . He served as an administrative official ( spatharokandidatos ), and retained imperial favor by espousing the cause of the usurping Emperor Leo V . After Leo's accession, Theodotos convinced the emperor in the righteousness of Iconoclasm , priming a saintly ascetic to urge Leo to adopt the example of Emperor Leo III the Isaurian .
      After deposing the Orthodox Patriarch Nikephoros in 815, Emperor Leo V had Theodotos tonsured and appointed him patriarch. The elderly official is described as meek, uneducated, and virtuous, although his previous actions had exhibited a taste for intrigue. Theodotos was charged with holding luxurious and frivoulous banquets, scandalizing some of the more conservative members of the clergy. Theodotos presided over the synod of Constantinople in 815 which reinstituted Iconoclasm, although much of the Iconoclast effort was driven by other clerics, including the later Patriarchs Antony I and John VII . In the aftermath of this synod Theodotos is representing as torturing by starvation at more than one Iconodule abbot in an attempt to force them into agreement with his ecclesiastical policy



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