Theodotus II also known as Theodosius ( el, ), (? – October 1154) was a 12th-century clergyman who served as
Patriarch of Constantinople from 1151 until 1153.
Theodotus was an Abbot at the Monastery of the Resurrection in
Constantinople
la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه
, alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya ( Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis ( ...
. His two-year reign as Patriarch of Constantinople was uneventful, and he died in office. He was Patriarch during the rule of
Byzantine emperor
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Manuel I Comnenus
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.
A letter from the
Metropolitan of Ephesus,
George Tornikes, to the
Metropolitan of Athens
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,
George Bourtzes
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, notes how Tornikes was nearly lynched by the "rude mass of the clergy of
Hagia Sophia
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" when he objected to their plan to economise on Theodotus' funeral expenses. The desire to deny him the full measure of state funeral may have been due to accusations that the Patriarch was a
Bogomil
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, an accusation leveled by the Patriarch-elect of
Antioch
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,
Soterichos Panteugenos Soterichos Panteugenos ( gr, Σωτήριχος Παντεύγενος) was a Byzantine cleric and theologian who was briefly Patriarch-elect of Antioch in 1156–57.
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Originally a deacon of the Hagia Sophia, Panteugenos was elected as Patriar ...
, who used the dead Theodotus' "black and withered hand" as evidence of his heresy.
John Kinnamos
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notes only that Theodotus was "practiced in ascetic discipline."
[John Kinnamos. (1976). The Deeds of John and Manuel Comnenus, Columbia University Press, pp.70]
References
1070s births
1153 deaths
12th-century patriarchs of Constantinople
Officials of Manuel I Komnenos
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