Dorotheus or Dorotheos is a male given name from

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''Dōrótheos'' (), meaning "God's Gift", from (''dōron''), "gift" + (''theós''), "god". Its feminine counterpart is ''Dorothea'', (''Dorothy'').

Theodore Theodore may refer to: Places * Theodore, Australian Capital Territory, Australia * Theodore, Queensland, Australia * Theodore, Saskatchewan, Canada * Theodore, Alabama, United States * Theodore Reservoir, in Saskatchewan People * Theodore (gi ...

means the same, with the root words in reverse order. The earliest form of the word is the

Mycenaean Greek Mycenaean Greek is the earliest attested form of the Greek language. It was spoken on the Greek mainland and Crete in Mycenaean Greece (16th to 12th centuries BC). The language is preserved in inscriptions in Linear B, a script first atteste ...

''do-ra'', meaning "gifts", written in

Linear B Linear B is a syllabary, syllabic script that was used for writing in Mycenaean Greek, the earliest Attested language, attested form of the Greek language. The script predates the Greek alphabet by several centuries, the earliest known examp ...

syllabic script; the feminine form ''

Theodora Theodora may refer to: * Theodora (given name), a given name of Greek origin, meaning "God's gift" Historical figures known as Theodora Byzantine empresses * Theodora (wife of Justinian I) ( 500 – 548), saint by the Orthodox Church * Theodo ...

'' is also attested in Linear B as , ''te-o-do-ra''.

Linguistic variants

*Greek: ''Dorotheos'' (Δωρόθεος) *Latin: ''Dorotheus'' *English: ''Dorotheus'' *Russian: ''Dorofei'' (Дорофей) *Serbian: ''Dorotej'' (Доротеј) *Czech: ''Dorota'', ''Dora'' fem.

People

* Dorotheos (sculptor) (5th century BC), of Argos, to whom

Kresilas Kresilas ( ''Krēsílas''; ) was a Greek sculptor in the Classical period (5th century BC), from Kydonia. He was trained in Argos and then worked in Athens at the time of the Peloponnesian War, as a follower of the idealistic portraiture of My ...

was pupil *

Dorotheus of Sidon Dorotheus of Sidon (, c. 75 CE - ?? CE) was a 1st-century Greek astrologer and astrological poet, who, during the Hellenistic Period, wrote a didactic poem on horoscopic astrology in Greek, known as the ''Pentateuch'' (Πεντάτευχος; lit. ...

(

fl. ''Floruit'' ( ; usually abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for 'flourished') denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indic ...

75), Hellenistic astrologer *

Dorotheus of Tyre Saint Dorotheus (Greek: Άγιος Δωρόθεος) bishop of Tyre (present-day Lebanon; c. 255 – 362) is traditionally credited with an ''Acts'' of the Seventy Apostles (which may be the same work as the lost '' Gospel of the Seventy''), wh ...

(ca. 255 – 362), Christian presbyter and later bishop of Tyre * St. Dorotheus (martyr), who was martyred with

Gorgonius Gorgonius or Gorgon () was a Christian who was martyred in AD 304 alongside Peter Cubicularius and a certain Dorotheus at Nicomedia during the Diocletianic Persecution. Life According to Lactantius and Eusebius, Gorgonius held a high position i ...

and Peter in the 4th century * Dorotheus (poet) (fl. 4th-century), Christian poet, known for ''

The Vision of Dorotheus ''The Vision of Dorotheus'' or ''Dorotheos'' () is an autobiographical Homeric Greek poem in 343 lines of dactylic hexameter, attributed to "Dorotheus, son of Quintus the Poet". The poem chronicles a Vision (spirituality), vision, wherein the au ...

''. * Dorotheus of Antioch, (c. 388 – 407), Arian Archbishop of Constantinople *

Dorotheus (jurist) Dorotheus () was a professor of Roman law in the law school of Berytus in Phoenicia. While his date of birth is unknown, he must at least have died before 542. He was one of the three commissioners appointed by the Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I ...

(fl. 534), Byzantine jurist who helped draft the Justinian Code *

Dorotheus of Gaza Dorotheus of Gaza ( ''Dorotheos tes Gazes''; ca. 500 – 560 or 580), Dorotheus the Archimandrite or Abba Dorotheus, was a Christian monk and abbot. He lived as a monk at the monastery of Seridus near Gaza and wrote instructions on the ascetic ...

(505–565), monastic father *

Pope Peter IV of Alexandria Peter IV was the 34th Coptic Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria from 567 to 576. Peter IV succeeded the exiled Pope Theodosius I on the latter's death in 567. Because the Melkites were in control of Alexandria at the time, Peter IV lived in exi ...

, also known as Dorotheos (ruled in 565–569) * Dorotheus of Hilandar (fl. 1356–1382), protos of Mount Athos *

Dorotheus I of Athens Dorotheus I () was the Greek Orthodox metropolitan bishop of Athens from to 1392, and the first to reside in the city since 1205. He was the first Orthodox bishop of Athens to be allowed to reside in the city since its conquest by the Crusaders i ...

, metropolitan of Athens from 1388 to 1392 *

Dorotheos II of Trebizond Dorotheos II () was the second metropolitan bishop of Trebizond under Ottoman rule. His tenure began in 1472. The origin of Dorotheos is unclear, nor is anything about his early life known except that prior to his appointment to the see of Trebizo ...

, metropolitan of Trebizond from 1472 *

Dorotheos of Ohrid Dorotheus or Dorotheos is a male given name from Greek ''Dōrótheos'' (), meaning "God's Gift", from (''dōron''), "gift" + (''theós''), "god". Its feminine counterpart is ''Dorothea'', (''Dorothy''). Theodore means the same, with the root word ...

, 15th-century bishop *

Dorotheus IV Ibn Al-Ahmar Patriarch Dorotheus IV Ibn Al-Ahmar (died 1611), sometime known also as Dorotheus V,He is known as ''Dorotheus IV'' in the patriarchal lists of Korolevski and Skaff, as ''Dorotheus V'' in the list of Costantius. was Melkite Patriarch of Antioch fr ...

(d. 1611), Patriarch of Antioch from 1604 to 1611. * Dorotheus of Mount Sinai and Raithu, Archbishop of

Mount Sinai Mount Sinai, also known as Jabal Musa (), is a mountain on the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. It is one of several locations claimed to be the Mount Sinai (Bible), biblical Mount Sinai, the place where, according to the sacred scriptures of the thre ...

and Raithu * Archbishop

Dorotheus of Athens Dorotheus (, secular name Ioannis Kottaras ) was Archbishop of Athens and All Greece from 1956 to 1957. He was born in Hydra in 1888 and studied theology at the University of Athens, from where he graduated in 1909. He then studied law at the Un ...

, Archbishop of All Greece 1956–1957 *

Dorotheos of Adrianople Dorotheus or Dorotheos is a male given name from Greek ''Dōrótheos'' (), meaning "God's Gift", from (''dōron''), "gift" + (''theós''), "god". Its feminine counterpart is ''Dorothea'', (''Dorothy''). Theodore means the same, with the root word ...

Dorotheos the Younger Dorotheus or Dorotheos is a male given name from Greek ''Dōrótheos'' (), meaning "God's Gift", from (''dōron''), "gift" + (''theós''), "god". Its feminine counterpart is ''Dorothea'', (''Dorothy''). Theodore means the same, with the root word ...

Dorotheos Polykandriotis Dorotheus or Dorotheos is a male given name from Greek ''Dōrótheos'' (), meaning "God's Gift", from (''dōron''), "gift" + (''theós''), "god". Its feminine counterpart is ''Dorothea'', (''Dorothy''). Theodore means the same, with the root word ...

, Church of Greece *

Pseudo-Dorotheus A number of late 3rd-century Christian works are pseudepigraphically attributed to Dorotheus of Tyre. These works describe the lives of the Apostles and their disciples, including tradition about Barnabas living in Rome Rome (Italian language ...

, 3rd-century Christian writer * Pseudo-Dorotheos of Monemvasia, 17th-century Greek chronicler *

Dorotheus (magister militum) Dorotheus was a Byzantine military commander. While being ''magister militum per Armeniam'' he won a battle against the Persians, in 530, as well as taking part in the Battle of Satala. At Satala he defended the city while his superior Sittas was h ...

, Byzantine military leader

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