Pope Theodore I

Pope Theodore I (Latin: Theodorus I; died 14 May 649) was the bishop of Rome from 24 November 642 to his death.

Theodore I's election was supported by the exarch of Ravenna, who governed Italy in the name of the emperor in Constantinople.

While his efforts made little impression on Constantinople, it increased the opposition to the teaching in the West; Pyrrhus even briefly recanted Monothelitism in 645, but was excommunicated in 648.

In response, Paul destroyed the Roman altar in the palace of Placidia and exiled or imprisoned the papal apocrisiarius.

[5] Theodore planned the Lateran Council of 649 to condemn the Ecthesis, but died before he could convene it.

The Madaba Map , a 6th-century mosaic image of Jerusalem , roughly contemporary with Pope Theodore I. The New Church of the Theotokos (red square in image) was a few decades old during Theodore's youth.