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	Theophilus II
		Theophilus was Byzantine emperor from 829 to 842.
		This war was caused by Theophilus, who afforded an asylum to a number of Persian refugees, one of whom, called Theophobus after his conversion to Christianity, married the emperor's sister Helena, and became one of his generals.
		Theophilus, who had received an excellent education from John Hylilas[?], the grammarian, was a great admirer of music and a lover of art, although his taste was not of the highest.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/th/Theophilus_II.html (416 words)

	Theophilus
		With Theophilus at their head, the Christians retaliated by destroying the celebrated temple of Serapis, on the ruins of which the patriarch erected a church.
		Theophilus was summoned to Constantinople to answer their charges, and thus begins his connection with the tragedy of Chrysostom, which soon took the first place in his and the public interest (see ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM).
		The Canons ascribed to Theophilus are in Pitra, "Juris eccles.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/t/theophilus2.html (837 words)

	Theophilus - LoveToKnow 1911
		THEOPHILUS, East Roman emperor (829-842), the second of the "Phrygian" dynasty.
		At the time of his accession, the Sicilians were still engaged in hostilities with the Saracens, but Theophilus was obliged to devote all his energies to the war against the caliphs of Bagdad (see Caliphate, especially sect.
		There is no doubt that he did his best to check corruption and oppression on the part of his officials, and administered justice with strict impartiality, although his punishments did not always fit the crime.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Theophilus (475 words)

	Theophilus - MSN Encarta (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		He upheld iconoclast policies throughout his reign, having been influenced in his early education by the scholar John Philoponus, elected patriarch of Constantinople in 832, who considered icon worship to be a heresy.
		Theophilus attempted to replicate the flourishing culture and generous patronage of caliph Harun ar-Rashid, but was forced to defend the empire against Harun’s sons al-Ma’mun and al-Mu’tasim.
		Theophilus was overwhelmed in 838 by al-Mu’tasim, who went on to take the city of Ankara and the fortress at Amorium; the Muslims were eventually defeated in 841 at Melitene (now Malatya, Turkey).
	uk.encarta.msn.com.cob-web.org:8888 /encyclopedia_121502977/Theophilus.html (154 words)

	Theophilus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Theophilus (Biblical) is the name to which the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles is addressed
		Theophilus (emperor) — (829–842) a Byzantine Emperor of the second of the Phrygian dynasty
		Theophilus Presbyter — (1070–1125) a Benedictine monk, metallurgist, and armourer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Theophilus (304 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Cyril of Alexandria
		Theophilus died 15 Oct., 412, and on the 18th Cyril was consecrated his uncle's successor, but only after a riot between his supporters and those of his rival Timotheus.
		Theophilus, the persecutor of Chrysostom, had not the privilege of communion with Rome from that saint's death, in 406, until his own.
		John Chrysostom against Theophilus, but had neither censured the orthodoxy of the latter, nor consented to the patriarchal powers exercised by the bishops of Constantinople.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04592b.htm (3073 words)

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		He now, in turn, was bidden by the emperor to take his trial, Theophilus his judge with his twenty-nine suffragans and a chance half-dozen visiting bishops picked up in the capital--the group called the "Synod of The Oak," from the country seat at Chalcedon where these bishops met.
		Cyril's writing separate letters to the emperor, the empress, and the princesses was here declared to be an attempt to divide the imperial family, and the bishop was ordered--not invited--to attend the council, under severe penalties.[13] On the other hand, the emperor's act had changed the whole situation for Nestorius.
		The emperor regards all that was done as of no effect, and orders the bishops to meet again, in accord, this time, with the instructions given to the count.
	www.ewtn.com /library/CHISTORY/HEPHESUS.TXT (6878 words)

	THEOSUB
		Several commentators have said that Theophilus was a person of social prominence in the group that the author intended as his audience.
		By demonstrating to Theophilus that the new sect was a part of Judaism, Luke hoped to persuade Theophilus who had the ability to end the prosecutions.
		Theophilus was the son of Annas and the brother-in-law of Caiaphas before both of whom Jesus appeared.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Pantheon/2454/theosub/THEOSUB.htm (7327 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Theophilus
		His name is connected with three important historical events: the decay of paganism in Egypt, the Origenistic controversy, and the deposition and banishment of St.
		John Chrysostom, with the assistance of Theophilus, succeeded in re-establishing ecclesiastical communion between Flavian and Rome.
		Theophilus was summoned to Constantinople to answer their charges, and thus begins his connection with the tragedy of Chrysostom, which soon took the first place in his and the public interest (see ST.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14625b.htm (836 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 746 (v. 2)
		Fearful of being suspected of a treasonable, correspondence with the enemy, Leo showed the letter to the logothete Theoctistus, by whom the matter was reported to the emperor.
		The emperor first appointed him public teacher or professor, assigning him the church of the Forty Martyrs as a school, and soon after ordered the patriarch Joannes, who appears hitherto to have neglected his learned kinsman, to ordain him archbishop of Thessalonica (Theoph.
		Comb£fis was disposed to claim for Leo of Thessalonica the authorship of the celebrated X/tnytr/iof, Oracula, which are commonly ascribed to the emperor Leo VI.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/1854.html (757 words)

	OCA - Feasts and Saints: Life of Saint
		One of his letters, sent with Deacon Theophilus, was intercepted and given to the emperor Maximian.
		Theophilus was interrogated and died under torture, without revealing to his torturers the whereabouts of Bishop Anthimus.
		When Bishop Anthimus was brought before the emperor, the emperor ordered that the instruments of execution be brought out and placed before him.
	ocafs.oca.org /FeastSaintsLife.asp?FSID=102467 (487 words)

	HTC: Lenten Synaxarion: The Triumph of Orthodoxy Sunday
		For it was this Theophilus who gave many of the Holy Fathers over to torments and tortures, seeking the truth about the holy icons and believing whatever he would.
		Now when her dream had passed and Theophilus had come to his senses, he cried, "Woe is me in my wretchedness, I am struck for the sake of the holy icons." And immediately the empress held an icon of the Theotokos above him and entreated her with tears.
		As she recognized the Emperor Theophilus among those being led with his hands bound behind his back, she followed the group and its guards.
	www.holy-trinity.org /liturgics/synaxarion/5-orthodoxysunday.html (1300 words)

	Relatives of D.T. Rogers(b. 1943) - pafg512 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Emperor Michael III of the Byzantine Empire [Parents] was born in 839 in Byzantium,Istanbul,Turkey.
		Emperor Theophilus of The Byzantine Empire [Parents] was born about 800 in Byzantium,Istanbul,Turkey.
		She married Emperor Theophilus of The Byzantine Empire about 820 in Byzantium,Istanbul,Turkey.
	www.geocities.com /dantrogers/pafg512.htm (283 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1075 (v. 2)
		It is known that the Byzantine emperors would never recognise the imperial title of the Frankish kings, and afterwards those of Germany.
		Euphemius governed the island for the emperor, and having met with some disappointment at the court, invited Ziadet-Allah, the third khalif of the Aglabites in Africa, to take possession of the country.
		842 to 867» was the son and successor of the emperor Theophilus, and the grandson of Michael II.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/2183.html (908 words)

	Theophilus of Antioch (Roberts-Donaldson)
		Theophilus also displays wide and multifarious though superficial reading, and a familiar acquaintance with the most celebrated Greek writers.
		The emperor Leo refused the request of the emissaries of Timotheus for immediate action against the authority of the council of Chalcedon, which he had already constructively upheld by confirming the ecclesiastical acts of his predecessors (cf.
		Pope Leo wrote, on June 17, 460, to the emperor Leo and to Gennadius, the new patriarch of Constantinople, urging that Timotheus, even supposing his conversion sincere, was disqualified by having "invaded so great a see during the lifetime of its bishop" (Epp.
	www.earlychristianwritings.com /info/theophilus-wace.html (1360 words)

	Theophilos (emperor) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Theophilos or Theophilus (Greek: Θεόφιλος), (813 – 842) was Byzantine emperor from 829 to 842.
		Theophilos was the son of the later Emperor Michael II and Thekla, and the godson of Emperor Leo V the Armenian.
		The emperor returned to Constantinople in triumph, but in the Autumn was defeated by the enemy in Cappadocia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Theophilus_(emperor) (811 words)

	Chapter Succession And Characters Of The Greek Emperors. of History of The Decline And Fall of The Roman Empire by ...
		Danielis presented him with thirty slaves; and the produce of her bounty was expended in the support of his brothers, and the purchase of some large estates in Macedonia.
		But it was impossible to obtain the confidence of Michael, without complying with his vices; and his new favorite, the great chamberlain of the palace, was raised and supported by a disgraceful marriage with a royal concubine, and the dishonor of his sister, who succeeded to her place.
		His life was endangered by the caprice of the emperor; and his dignity was profaned by a second colleague, who had rowed in the galleys.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/1/62/109/25690/15.html (608 words)

	A History of Europe, Chapter 7
		The next Byzantine emperor, Leo IV (775-780), was not a very determined iconoclast, and his widow Irene favored the other side; unlike her predecessors, she came from a western province, and thus did not care what Moslems might think of the images.
		This was going too far and it made the emperor too unpopular, so in 843 a new council was called in Hagia Sophia, which again undid all the rulings against icons, and condemned all iconoclasts except the former emperor Theophilus.
		Emperor Otto III agreed that their objection was reasonable, and Pope Sylvester II saw to it that both peoples got archbishops of their own.
	xenohistorian.faithweb.com /europe/eu07.html (18332 words)

	Theophanes the Confessor - OrthodoxWiki
		The holy brothers were famed as advocates of icon veneration.
		They boldly fulfilled the mission entrusted them by the Patriarch of Jerusalem and went to Constantinople to denounce the iconoclast emperor Leo the Armenian (813-820).
		The emperor Theophilus gave orders to inscribe a phrase insulting to the glorious confessors upon their faces with red-hot needles.
	orthodoxwiki.org /Theophanes_the_Confessor (218 words)

	Roman Emperors DIR Gallus Caesar
		It is often assumed on the basis of Ammianus 22.9.4, which refers only to Julian, that both Gallus and his half-brother were entrusted to the care of Eusebius, Bishop of Nicomedia (who was in some way related to Julian) in that same city.
		Ammianus (14.7.2) credits Honoratus with the salvation of the senators of Antioch, all of whom Gallus had sentenced to death in recompense for their opposition to this policy (did this episode figure in the replacement of Honoratus by Nebridius?).
		Ammianus vividly describes Theophilus' death, the mishandling of his body, and the burning of the home of the decurion Eubulus (14.7.5-7), while Julian (Misopogon 370 C) recalls the burning of the houses of the powerful and calls this, along with Theophilus' murder, the result of the justified but excessive anger of the populace[[13]] Libanius (Or.
	www.roman-emperors.org /gallus.htm (6124 words)

	Lives of Saints :: Baba 18
		Abba Theophilus was knowledgeable, well read in the church books with full understanding of their interpretation.
		When Abba Theophilus was with Abba Athanasius the Apostolic, he heard him one day saying while looking at the hills before his cell, "If I find time, I will clear away these hills and build a church in their place for St. John the Baptist and Elisha the prophet."
		When the Emperor saw the love of the Abba the Patriarch for building churches, he gave him all the houses of idols and Abba Theophilus changed them to churches and lodging houses for strangers, and endowed them with land.
	www.copticchurch.net /synaxarium/02_18.html (586 words)

	Theophilus of Alexandria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Theophilus of Alexandria, (died 412) was the Nicene patriarch of Alexandria, Egypt (385 - 412).
		A letter was sent by the emperor that Theophilus should grant the offending pagans pardon, but destroy the temple.
		Theophilus turned on the followers of Origen after having supported them for a time.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Theophilus_of_Alexandria (288 words)

	Bible Study - Theophilus
		Theophilus, in Greek meaning lover of God, was the man to whom Luke wrote the Gospel of Luke (Luke 1:3) and the Book of Acts (Acts 1:1).
		To the Romans, their Emperor was idolized as a god (just as some modern-day political leaders are revered as divine), something that no Christian could ever accept (a great many Christians, and Jews, were martyred by the Romans for that very reason, and will be again - see Revelation 13).
		"In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day when He was taken up, after He had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom He had chosen.
	www.keyway.ca /htm2003/20030625.htm (410 words)

	The Compass newspaper -- Saint of the Day
		Eventually, he was summoned back to Constantinople by Patriarch Nicephorus and became a vigorous opponent of iconoclasm, a heresy that sought to destroy religious objects and opposed their veneration.
		His efforts against iconoclasm were compounded in 815 when Emperor Leo the Armenian began persecuting anyone opposing the heresy.
		Finally, Methodius was vindicated when the emperor died in 842 and his widow, Theodora, who ruled as regent for their infant son, Michael III, repealed all decrees against images and recalled all exiled priests.
	www.thecompassnews.org /compass/2001-06-08/01cn0608f2.htm (426 words)

	Theophilus (emperor) - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Theophilus (emperor) - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Emperor, title, the meaning of which is derived from the Latin imperator, which at first was applied generally to any magistrate of ancient Rome...
		Cibber, Theophilus (1703-1758), English actor and playwright, son of actor and playwright Colley Cibber.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=Theophilus+(emperor) (100 words)

	A History of the General Councils - AD 325 through AD 1870 - Mgr. Philip Hughes
		On November 19, the emperor had summoned a General Council of the Church, for certain vaguely described purposes, the summons said, but actually, no one doubted, to settle this controversy between Constantinople and Alexandria and--in the expectation of Nestorius--to be the scene of the trial for heresy (Apollinarianism) of Cyril.
		At the session of the following day the same legate pronounced that the judgment of June 22 had been made "canonically and in accordance with ecclesiastical learning"; and, "conformably with the instructions of the most holy pope, Celestine," the judgment was confirmed.
		In the report of these last proceedings made by the bishops to the emperor, the principal part which the Roman see has played in the condemnation of Nestorius, "before the present council was summoned," is stressed, and the fact that Cyril had been charged by the pope to act in his place.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/CDHN/coun4.html (7142 words)

	THEOPHILUS - Online Information article about THEOPHILUS
		Saracens, but Theophilus was obliged to, devote all his energies to the See also:
		Asia and the large sums spent by Theophilus on See also:
		Theophilus, who had received an excellent See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /TAV_THE/THEOPHILUS.html (671 words)

	Great Library
		"At the solicitation of Theophilus bishop of Alexandria the emperor issued an order at this time for the demolition of the heathen temples in that city; commanding also that it should be put in execution under the direction of Theophilus.
		Thus this disturbance having been terminated, the governor of Alexandria, and the commander-in-chief of the troops in Egypt, assisted Theophilus in demolishing the heathen temples.
		These were therefore razed to the ground, and the images of their gods molten into pots and other convenient utensils for the use of the Alexandrian church; for the emperor had instructed Theophilus to distribute them for the relief of the poor.
	www.the-world-in-focus.com /Africa/Egypt/momuments/greatlibrary.html (1121 words)

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