Theodoros 132 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | E/M IX |
| Dates | 863 (c.) / 863 (c.) |
| Religion | Christian |
| Locations | Plate (Princes' Islands); Patrai (Hellas) (officeplace); Patrai (Hellas) |
| Occupation | Bishop |
| Titles | Bishop, Patrai (Hellas) (office); Metropolitan, Patrai (Hellas) (office) |
| Textual Sources | Vita Ignatii Patriarchae, by Nicetas (BHG 817), PG 105.488-574) (hagiography) |
| Seal Sources | Dumbarton Oaks, A Catalogue of the Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, eds., J. Nesbitt and N. Oikonomides (Washington, DC, 1991-); Laurent, V., Le corpus des sceaux de l'empire byzatin, V, 1-3, L'église (Paris, 1963-72); II, L'administration centrale (Paris, 1981) |
Theodoros 132 was metropolitan bishop of Patrai; in c. 863 he was sent by the patriarch Photios 1 with Amphilochios 1 and Pantaleon 6 to the island of Plate to purify an altar which the exiled patriarch Ignatios 1 had re-erected after it had been overthrown by Russian raiders (in 860): Nicetas, Vita Ignatii 532C (Ἀμφιλόχιόν τε Κυζίκου, καὶ Θεόδωρον τῶν Πατρῶν, μητροπολίτας).
Possibly identical with the metropolitan bishop of Patrai (Patras) who owned a seal dateable to the ninth century: DOSeals II 34.5 = Laurent, Corpus V 1, no. 628. Obv.: invocative monogram of Θεοτόκε βοήθει with the legend τω - σω - δου - λω. Rev.: [+] Θεοδω - [ρ]ω μητρο - [π]ολητ[η] Πα - τρων. On the date, see Nesbitt and Oikonomides, DOSeals II, p. 92. Laurent suggested identifying the owner of the seal with the agent of Photios 1 in 862/863 (see Grumel, Regestes 474) but not with the man associated later with Photios 1 (Nicetas, Vita Ignatii, 572C - the identification is made by Niketas 65; Grumel, Regestes 513) (and cf. Theodoros 174 Santabarenos; see Grumel, EO, XXXII, 1933, 439-443 and Laurent, p. 473, note).
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