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THEODORE

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 765 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THEODORE  , the name of two popes . Theodore I.,

pope from November 642 till May 649, succeeded John IV . He was the son of a bishop, and was born in Jerusalem . A zealous opponent of monothelitism, in the course of the protracted controversy he in a
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Roman synod excommunicated Pyrrhus, patriarch of Constantinople, and signed the document with ink mingled with consecrated wine . Theodore II. had a pontificate of only twenty days (Nov.–Dec . 897) .

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