• Theodore Balsamon, also called Balsamo, (Greek: Θεόδωρος Βαλσαμῶν) was a canonist of the Eastern Orthodox Church and 12th-century Eastern Orthodox Patriarch...
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    diet of monks who refused to eat bread. The 12th century canonist Theodore Balsamon maintained that koliva as a ritual food practice was originated by...
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  • Theodore II of Antioch (970–976), Greek Orthodox patriarch Theodore III of Antioch (1034–1042), Greek Orthodox patriarch Theodore Balsamon, Theodore IV...
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  • Jerusalem Theodore Balsamon, 12th-century Eastern Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch Theodore I Laskaris, Emperor of Nicaea (1204–1221 or 1205–1222) Theodore II Laskaris...
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    Ephesus, Thessaloniki, and Corinth. The twelfth century canonist Theodore Balsamon deemed it strictly reserved for the patriarch. No polystavrion has...
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  • After the Quinisext Council and the liturgical reforms of Patriarch Theodore Balsamon, the Byzantine Rite became the only rite in the Eastern Orthodox Church...
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    was a late development, and before the 1500s they wore no headgear. Theodore Balsamon, Patriarch of Antioch (ca. 1130–1140) stated that the patriarch of...
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    and denied the popes had the right to bestow the imperial office. Theodore Balsamon justified Michael Cerularius's behaviour in 1054 using the Donation...
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    first literary evidence for the garment is found in the writings of Theodore Balsamon, Patriarch of Antioch (ca. 1130–1140), and he deemed it restricted...
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    expressly banned from society, as sometimes happened in Western Europe. Theodore Balsamon, a 12th-century jurist in Constantinople, noted that lepers were allowed...
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  • Syriac Orthodox patriarch of Antioch a 12th-century religious work by Theodore Balsamon, Greek Orthodox patriarch of Antioch a 14th-century religious work...
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  • for minor cases, from which appeal may be made to the bishop. So Theodore Balsamon (twelfth century): "It is forbidden by the canons that there should...
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    However, estrangement continued. In 1190, Eastern Orthodox theologian Theodore Balsamon, who was patriarch of Antioch, wrote that "no Latin should be given...
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  • Holobolos George Akropolites George of Cyprus Barlaam of Seminara Theodore Balsamon Leo the Mathematician Athanasios of Emesa Eustathius of Thessalonica...
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    century The Nomocanon of Photios, from the 9th century The Syntagma of Theodore Balsamon and his Scholia to the Nomocanon of Photios, from the 12th century...
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    This policy included changing earlier texts; in the writings of Theodore Balsamon, for instance, all references to Andronikos as basileus (emperor)...
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    Catholics, was held and promoted by famous Eastern Orthodox canonist Theodore Balsamon who was patriarch of Antioch. He wrote in 1190: For many years the...
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  • ecumenical council by people like the famous expert on Canon Law, Theodore Balsamon (11th century), St. Neilos of Rhodes, St. Mark of Ephesus (15th century)...
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    patriarchates (the Epanagoge, commentaries of Matthew Blastares and Theodore Balsamon) In the eighth and ninth centuries the iconoclast movement caused...
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  • dedicated to him by Theodore Prodromos and Gregory Antiochos, and he corresponded with George Tornikes, Euthymios Malakes, Theodore Balsamon, and John Tzetzes...
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    p. 41 Maspero & Mateo Seco, p. 42 McGuckin, John Anthony (2017). "Theodore Balsamon". In Witte, John Jr.; Hauk, Gary S. (eds.). Christianity and Family...
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    Peter I, who attempted to maintain peace with the Byzantine Empire. Theodore Balsamon, Patriarch of Antioch, called him "the rebel Slavopetros" in a poem...
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  • perceived as sinister and anti-Latin in the West. Byzantine theologian Theodore Balsamon wrote in 1190 that no Latin should be given sacraments unless he first...
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    forbade the use of eukteria for any service apart from the liturgy. Theodore Balsamon, the leading 12th-century Byzantine canonist, upheld the right of...
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    catholicos". "According to the Antiochene canonist and patriarch Theodore Balsamon (1140–95), 'When the Lord Peter was the Holy Patriarch of the great...
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    of Milan," general audience, St. Peter's Square, October 24, 2007. Theodore Balsamon, Patrologia Graeca 137, 794; G.J.C. Snoek, Medieval Piety from Relics...
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    exactly when the older uses were forsaken for that of Byzantium. Theodore Balsamon says that by the end of the twelfth century the Church of Jerusalem...
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    being sounded first, followed by the larger, then by those of iron. Theodore Balsamon (12th century), in a treatise on the subject, compares the sounding...
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    Athens, but she learned all the wisdom of the Greeks". The writer Theodore Balsamon noted that she "displayed a fascination with healing methods" and...
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    Eastern Orthodox ecclesiastical and imperial laws and decrees by Theodore Balsamon known as the "Scholia" (Greek: Σχόλια) (c. 1170). Michael's patriarchy...
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