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THEODORE (602-690)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 766 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THEODORE (602-690) , seventh See also:archbishop of See also:Canterbury, was See also:born at See also:Tarsus in See also:Cilicia in 6o2. On the See also:death of Wighard, who had been sent to See also:Pope Vitalian by Ecgberht of See also:Kent and See also:Oswio of See also:Northumbria in 667, apparently for See also:consecration as archbishop, Theodore, who had become prominent in the Eastern See also:work of the See also:church, was recommended by See also:Hadrian of Niridanum to fill the vacant see. Vitalian consecrated Theodore in See also:April 688 on See also:condition that Hadrian, afterwards See also:abbot of St See also:Peter's, Canterbury, should go with him. Hadrian was detained for some See also:time by See also:Ebroin, the Neustrian See also:mayor of the See also:palace, but Theodore reached See also:England in May 669. According to See also:Bede's See also:account he made a tour of the whole of Anglo-Saxon England, reforming abuses and giving instruction as to the monastic See also:rule and the canonical See also:Easter. Bede also declares that he was the first archbishop to whom all the " church of the Angles " submitted. From the first he seems to have ignored the See also:scheme for a See also:separate See also:province of See also:York, but he reorganized the episcopate, assigning See also:Bisi to See also:East Anglia, Putta to See also:Rochester, See also:Hlothhere to Wessex, and Ceadda after reconsecration to See also:Mercia. He brought the monastic See also:education up to date by introducing See also:literary, metrical and musical studies. In 673 Theodore pre-sided at the first See also:synod of the See also:clergy in England which was held at See also:Hertford. Various disciplinary regulations were emphasized, and an See also:annual See also:meeting arranged at a See also:place called Cloveshoe. After this See also:council Theodore revived the East Saxon bishopric, to which he appointed Earconwald. Soon after the first See also:expulsion of See also:Wilfrid in 678 he divided the Northumbrian See also:diocese, appointing Trumwine See also:bishop to the Picts.

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quarrel with Wilfrid which was not finally settled until 686-687. In 679 Theodore intervened to make See also:peace between See also:Ecgfrith of Northumbria and Aethelred of Mercia. He presided at other synods held in 68o at See also:Hatfield and in 684 at Twyford, and died in 69o. A See also:penitential composed under Theodore's direction is still extant. See Bede, Ilist. Eccl., edited by C. Plummer (See also:Oxford, 1896) ; See also:Eddius, Vita Wilfridii in J. Raine's Historians of the Church of York, vol. i. (See also:London, 1879) ; Anglo-Saxon See also:Chronicle, edited by See also:Earle and Plummer (Oxford, 1899) ; Haddam and See also:Stubbs, See also:Councils and Ecclesiastical Documents (Oxford, 1869-78), iii. 173-213.

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