Theoctistus or Theoktistos ( el, Θεόκτιστος) is a Greek name derived from θεος ''theos'', "god", and κτίσμα ''ktisma'', "creation, edifice, foundation", the resulting combination being translated to "creation of God", "godly creation".
Theoctistus or Theoktistos can refer to, chronologically:
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Theoctistus of Caesarea (2nd-3rd centuries), bishop; see
Origen
*Theoctistus of Alexandria (3rd century), a sea captain, martyr, saint, and companion of
Faustus, Abibus and Dionysius of Alexandria (martyred 250)
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Theoctistus of Palestine
Venerable Theoctistus of Palestine (also Theoktistos) was an associate of Euthymius the Great. He was an ascetic who lived in a nearby cell at the Pharan lavra.
Ascetic life
About five years after Euthymius arrived, they went into the desert for ...
(died 451 or 467), aka Venerable Theoctistus (Theoktistos) of Palestine, Byzantine monk, hermit and Orthodox saint, active in Palestine, companion of
Saint Euthymius the Great
Euthymius the Great (377 – 20 January 473) was an abbot in Palestine. He is venerated in both Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches.
Euthymius' ''vita'' was written by Cyril of Skythopolis, who describes him as the founder of several m ...
with whom he established a
monastery, commemorated on September 3
*Monk Theoktistos (died 800), the
hegumen of Sicilian Kucuma, commemorated as an
Eastern Orthodox saint.
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Theoktistos (magistros)
Theoktistos (; ) was a senior Byzantine official who played an important role under the Nikephorian dynasty (802–813).
Theoktistos is first mentioned in 802, when he held the rank of ''patrikios
The patricians (from la, patricius, Greek: ...
(fl. 802–821), senior Byzantine official
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Theoctistus of Naples Theoctistus ( it, Teoctisto) was the Duke of Naples during an ill-recorded period in its history. His reign began sometime around 818 and lasted until 821.
On the death of Anthimus, a war of succession broke out in Naples on account of the number ...
, Duke of Naples in 818-821
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Theoktistos Bryennios Theoktistos Bryennios ( el, Θεόκτιστος Βρυέννιος, ) was a Greek nobleman and a Byzantine general who quelled a Slavic rebellion in the Peloponnese in 842.
Theoktistos Bryennios is the first known member of the aristocratic Bryen ...
(fl. ca. 842), Byzantine general
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Theoktistos, chief minister and regent of the Byzantine Empire from 842 to 855
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Theoktistos the Stoudite
Theoktistos or Theoctistus (; died November 20, 855) was a leading Byzantine official during the second quarter of the 9th century and the ''de facto'' head of the regency for the underage emperor Michael III from 842 until his dismissal and m ...
, 14th-century Byzantine ecclesiastical writer
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Teoctist I of Moldavia Teoctist I of Moldavia (''ca.'' 1410–November 18, 1477 or 1478) was a Moldavian cleric of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Teoctist was probably tonsured a monk and served as ''starets'' at Neamț Monastery, which at the time was the country's mo ...
(ca. 1410-1477), Metropolitan of Moldavia from 1453 to 1477
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Teoctist Arăpaşu (born Toader Arăpaşu; 1915-2007), Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church from 1986 to 2007
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