Theodoret of Cyrus

Θεοδώρητος Κύρου · Theodoretus Cyrensis

Theodoret was bishop of Cyrrhus in Syria and the last great writer of the Antiochene school of exegesis. He wrote commentaries on most of the Old Testament and on the letters of Paul, besides apologetic and historical works.

Dates
ca. 393 - ca. 460 (approximate)
See or city
Cyrrhus
Region
Syria
Also known as
Theodoretus Cyrensis
Notes
Bishop of Cyrrhus from 423; a leading Antiochene exegete, deposed at the Council of Ephesus in 449 and restored at Chalcedon in 451. Dates are approximate.

Works