Theodotus I of Constantinople

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Theodotos I Kassiteras
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
Consecration of Theodotus as patriarch of Constantinople, miniature from the Madrid Skylitzes
Installed815
Term ended821

Theodotos I Kassiteras, Latinized as Theodotus I Cassiteras (Greek: Θεόδοτος Κασσιτερᾶς or Κασσιτηρᾶς; died January 821) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1 April 815 to January 821.[1]

Theodotos was born in

Eudokia, the last wife of Emperor Constantine V. Theodotos had become attached to the court bureaucracy and was a confidant of Emperor Michael I Rangabe
.

By the time Michael I was deposed by

iconodule
abbot in an attempt to force them into agreement with his ecclesiastical policy.

He ceases to be mentioned in the sources after the murder of Leo V and accession of

Michael II the Amorian in December 820.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e ODB, "Theodotos I Kassiteras" (A.–M. Talbot), p. 2054.
  2. ^ Treadgold 1988, pp. 212–213.
  3. ^ Treadgold 1988, p. 213.

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Titles of Chalcedonian Christianity
Preceded by Patriarch of Constantinople
815–821
Succeeded by