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Theodorus

5. Of ALEXANDRIA (3). Theodore, a deacon, of the church at Alexandria.

Works

Λίβελλος, Libellus, against the patriarch of Alexandria

At the Council of Chalcedon, A. D. 451, he presented a Λίβελλος, Libellus, against the patriarch of Alexandria, Dioscorus, charging him with having grievously oppressed him (Theodore), on account of the regard in which he had been held by Cyril, the predecessor of Dioscorus.

ED

The document is given in the various editions of the Concilia (e. g. vol. iv. col. 395, ed. Labbe, vol. ii. col. 32,1, ed. Hardouin), in the Acta Concilii Chalcedonensis, actio iii.

Further Information

Cave, Hist. Litt. ad ann. 451, vol. i. p. 443; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. x. p. 386.

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.