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Theodore of Mopsuestia

an exegete of the early Church; born in Antioch about the middle of the 4th century. He was the friend of Chrysostom and the pupil of Libanius, but it was Diodorus of Tarsus from whom he imbibed his zeal for Biblical studies. About the year 383 he became a presbyter in An- THEODORE OF MOPSUESTIA tioch, and about 392 he was chosen Bishop of Mopsuestia in Cilicia. Theoon almost all the books of Scripture, of which only remain, in the Greek, that on the Minor Prophets; in Latin translations, those on the lesser epistles of Paul, besides many fragments, especially on the epistle to the Romans. When the Nestorian conout his polemical writings were attacked, and after a century of fanatical agitation were formally condemned by Justinian in the "Tria Capitula" (544). The fifth ecumenical council -that of Constantinople in 553-confirmed the emperor's condemnation, and Theodore's name vanished from the list of orthodox writers.

He died at peace with all men in 428 or 429.