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St Theodore (Russian: Святой Феодор начертанный) (died 820) was a hieromonk of the Orthodox Church known as a strong opponent of Byzantine Iconoclasm.Theodore was born in Constantinople to a family with strong connections to the Orthodox Church. Ordained in 787 in 794 he became abbot of the Symboleon monastery in Bithynia and later escaped from Saracen raids to Constantinople where he became an abbot again.