Theodorus I (bishop of Milan)

Theodorus I
Archbishop of Milan

Church	Catholic Church
Appointed	475 AD
Term ended	490
Predecessor	Senator
Successor	Lawrence I
Personal details
Died	490
Sainthood
Feast day	27 July
Venerated in	Eastern Orthodox Church Catholic Church

Theodorus I (Italian: Teodoro) was Archbishop of Milan from 475 to 490. He is honoured as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church and Catholic Church, and his feast day is 27 July.^[1]

Life

Almost nothing is known about the life and the episcopate of Theodorus.^[2] His episcopate was marked with the seizure of power in Italy by the first Barbarian king, Odoacer (476), followed by the invasion of the Ostrogoths of Theodoric the Great in 488–490. According to the writings of Ennodius, bishop of Pavia in the 6th-century, in such difficult times Theodorus demonstrated to be a man of great firmness and wit, a firm leader for the oppressed population of Milan.^[3]

Theodorus died in 490, and his remains were interred in the city's basilica of St. Lorenzo Maggiore.^[1] His feast is celebrated on 27 July in such basilica and together all the saint bishops of Milan on 25 September. A late tradition, with no historical basis, associates Theodorus with the family of the Medici.

Notes

^ ^a ^b Majo, Angelo (1993). "Teodoro I (+490)". Dizionario della Chiesa Ambrosiana. Vol. 6. Milano: NED. p. 3652. ISBN 88-7023-102-X.(in Italian)
^ Ruggeri, Fausto (1991). I Vescovi di Milano. Milano: NED. p. 16. ISBN 88-7023-154-2.(in Italian)
^ Cazzani, Eugenio (1996). Vescovi e arcivescovi di Milano. Milano: Massimo. pp. 31–32. ISBN 88-7030-891-X.(in Italian)

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Modern age	St. Carlo Borromeo (1564–1584) Gaspare Visconti (1584–1595) Federico I Borromeo (1595–1631) Cesare Monti (1632–1650) Alfonso Litta (1652–1679) Federico II Visconti (1681–1693) Federico III Caccia (1693–1699) Giuseppe Archinto (1699–1712) Benedetto II Erba Odescalchi (1712–1737) Carlo Gaetano Stampa (1737–1742) Giuseppe II Pozzobonelli (1743–1783) Filippo Maria Visconti (1784–1801) Giovanni Battista Caprara (1802–1810) sede vacante Carlo Gaetano Gaisruck (1818–1846) Bartolomeo Carlo Romilli (1847–1859) Paolo Angelo Ballerini (1859–1867) Luigi Nazari di Calabiana (1867–1893) Bl. Andrea Ferrari (1894–1921) Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti (1921–1922, elected Pope Pius XI) Eugenio Tosi (1922–1929) Bl. Ildefonso Schuster (1929–1954) St. Giovanni Battista Montini (1954–1963, elected Pope Paul VI) Giovanni Colombo (1963–1979) Carlo Maria Martini, SJ (1979–2002) Dionigi Tettamanzi (2002–2011) Angelo Scola (2011–2017) Mario Delpini (2017–present)
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