Theodore of Pherme
Also: Abba Theodore
Born: the year and the place are not known. Died: the year and the place are not known.
Monk of Scetis who moved to Pherme after the first raid on Scetis.
Wrote in Coptic.
Places lived
- until 407Scetis (now Wadi El Natrun, Egypt)monkyears probable, place probable
- from 407Pherme (now a hill between Nitria and Scetis, Egypt)monkyears probable, place probable
Works
1 work, in the order they were written. 1 work can be read here.
Filed here, not written by Theodore of Pherme
These texts are about this person, hold what this person said, or carry this name without good reason. Each page says which.
- Sayings of Theodore of Pherme about or from this personSayings and short stories of Theodore of Pherme, taken from the Sayings of the Desert Fathers.1,396 words
How we know the dates and places
- Born not known
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_of_Pherme
- Place of birth not known
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_of_Pherme : Egypt
- Died not known
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_of_Pherme
- Place of death not known
- no ancient source
- Scetis, years probable
- Apophthegmata Patrum, alphabetical collection (English: B. Ward, Sayings of the Desert Fathers, 1975), Theodore of Pherme 26; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_of_Pherme (it says 408)
- Scetis, place probable
- Apophthegmata Patrum, alphabetical collection (English: B. Ward, Sayings of the Desert Fathers, 1975), Theodore of Pherme; site: Pleiades https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727232
- Pherme, years probable
- Apophthegmata Patrum, alphabetical collection (English: B. Ward, Sayings of the Desert Fathers, 1975), Theodore of Pherme 26
- Pherme, place probable
- Apophthegmata Patrum, alphabetical collection (English: B. Ward, Sayings of the Desert Fathers, 1975), Theodore of Pherme 26; Palladius, Lausiac History 20 calls Pherme a mountain on the edge of the great desert of Scetis; the site is not found