Theodoros 49 was bishop of Rome from 24 November 642 to 14 May 649, as pope Theodore I. Son of a bishop, Theodoros 166, he was of Greek descent but was a native of Jerusalem: Lib. Pont. 75. 1 ("Theodorus, natione Grecus, ex patre Theodoro episcopo de civitate Hierusolima"). He succeeded John IV (640-642) as bishop of Rome and occupied the see for six years five months and eighteen days: Lib. Pont. 75. 1. He honoured Pyrrhos 1, former patriarch of Constantinople, who went to Rome from Africa claiming to have abandoned his heretical ideas; when he was found still to hold to them, Theodoros summoned a Council in St Peter's and had him condemned and anathematised and deposed formally: Lib. Pont. 75. 3. He also wrote to the patriarch Paulos 2 to abandon his errors and when he refused had him formally deposed: Lib. Pont. 75. 6. He was the addressee of a letter from the patriarch of Constantinople, Paulos 2, confessing the doctrine of One Will: Riedinger, p. 108, line 14, p. 586, line 15 (= Mansi XI 276, 560). Described as a lover of the poor, generous, kindly and merciful ("amator pauperum, largus, benignus super omnes et multum misericors"): Lib. Pont. 75. 1. He built a Church to St Valentinus on the Via Flaminia, near the Milvian Bridge, an oratory to St Sebastian within the Lateran palace, and another oratory to the martyr Euplus outside the gate of St Paul's: Lib. Pont. 75. 5, with Duchesne, Lib. Pont., p. 334, nn. 10, 11, 12. He was buried in St Peter's on the fourteenth of May: Lib. Pont. 75. 7 ("sub die prid. id. Mai."). Later, a basilica existed bearing his name: see Lib. Pont. 93. 18, 96. 29, and cf. Duchesne, Lib. Pont. I, p. 334, n. 11.

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