Theodore (Popes)
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THEODORE, the name of two popes.
Theodore 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 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).
