His two-year reign as Patriarch of Constantinople was uneventful, and he died in office.
A letter from the Metropolis of Ephesus, George Tornikes, to the Archbishopric of Athens, George Bourtzes, notes how Tornikes was nearly lynched by the "rude mass of the clergy of Hagia Sophia" when he objected to their plan to economise on Theodotus II's funeral expenses.
The desire to deny him the full measure of state funeral may have been due to accusations that the Patriarch was a Bogomil, an accusation leveled by the Patriarch-elect of Antioch, Soterichos Panteugenos, who used the dead Theodotus II's "black and withered hand" as evidence of his heresy.
[1] John Kinnamos notes only that Theodotus II was "practiced in ascetic discipline".
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