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          Theodore the Studite, St.

          Byzantine monastic reformer and theologian; b. Constantinople, 759; d.

          Saint Theodore the Studite was persecuted, exiled also five times.

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          6. perhaps on the island of Prinkipo, 826. Theodore's family, particularly his mother, Theoctista, provided him with an excellent secular and religious education, and he entered the monastic life under the direction of his maternal uncle, Abbot Plato of Symbola, at Saccudium near Mt.

          Olympus in Bithynia. Ordained in 787 or 788, Theodore succeeded Plato as abbot in 794.

          For his vigorous opposition to the adulterous second marriage of the Emperor Constantine VI and to the Patriarch Tarasius's toleration of it, Theodore was banished to Thessalonica in 796; but he was recalled a year later when the Empress irene deposed her son.

          In 799 Theodore and his community moved to Constantinople and revived the dormant monastery of Studios.

          Continued conflict over Constantine's "Moechian Affair" led to Theodore's banishment again in 809 by the Emperor Nicephorus I. After this Emperor's death in 811,