Theodulus, Presbyter in Celesiria

TEODULO, presbyter in CELESIRIA. — He wrote in the time of the emperor Zeno (474–91), according to Gennadius, De viris ill., cap. 91 (Herding), many books, of which, however, only one is known, namely: De consonantia Veteris et Novi Testamenti, an anti-heretical work, probably directed either against Manichaeans or Marcionites.

Two fragments are probably found in the Doctrina Patrum, pp. 315, 17 ff., ed. Diekamp, and p. III (cf. Acts of the Lateran Council [649] in Mansi, X, 1121 C). According to Ebediesu, the Syriac Church knew, by the same T., an interpretation of the prophet Isaiah in 2 vols. and a treatise on the Davidic psalms and on the best way of reciting them. According to Ebediesu, T. was a disciple of Theodore of Mopsuestia; the Doctrina Patrum calls him a Nestorian. All his works appear, at least, to have disappeared.

BIBL.: Bardenhewer, IV, p. 262; A. Baumstark, Gesch. der syrisch. Liter., Bonn 1922, p. 118. Erik Peterson
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“TEODULO, PRESBITERO IN CELESIRIA.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI (1953), p. 1172. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/teodulo-presbitero-in-celesiria.