That he was made a bishop from the east rather than one connected with Rome suggests that his story was worked on when Brindisi was subject to Constantinople, between the 8th and 10th centuries.

[6] Theodosius also introduced the veneration of Saint Barsanuphius to his diocese and acted as papal legate for popes Hadrian III and Stephen V for whom he went to imperial court of Constantinople.

[7] In 1572–1591, during the tenure of the Spanish Bishop Bernardino de Figueroa movements were made to separate Oria as seat of a new diocese.

The town was erected into an episcopal see on 8 May 1591 by Pope Gregory XIV,[8] after the death of the Spaniard, Archbishop Bernardino de Figueroa.

After an interval of four and a half years first bishop of Oria was appointed, Vincenzo del Tufo, in 1596.

A diocesan synod was an irregularly held, but important, meeting of the bishop of a diocese and his clergy.