Dorotheus
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Dorotheus may refer to:
- Dorotheus (jurist)Dorotheus (jurist)Dorotheus was a professor of jurisprudence in the law school of Berytus in Syria, and one of the three commissioners appointed by the Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I to draw up a book of Institutes, after the model of the Institutes of Gaius, which should serve as an introduction to the Digest ...
, 6th-century jurist (fl.FloruitFloruit , abbreviated fl. , is a Latin verb meaning "flourished", denoting the period of time during which something was active...
534) who helped to draft the Justinian Code - See GorgoniusGorgoniusSaint Gorgonius of Nicomedia was a Christian martyr, part of the group Gorgonius, Peter Cubicularius and Dorotheus, who died in 304 AD at Nicomedia during the persecution of Emperor Diocletian....
for St. Dorotheus, who was martyred with Gorgonius and Peter (4th century) - Dorotheus of GazaDorotheus of GazaDorotheus of Gaza or Abba Dorotheus was a Christian monk and abbot. He joined the monastery Abba Serid near Gaza through the influence of elders Barsanuphius and John. Around 540 he founded his own monastery nearby and became abbot there...
, monastic father - Dorotheus of SidonDorotheus of SidonDorotheus of Sidon was a 1st-century Hellenistic astrologer who wrote a didactic poem on horoscopic astrology known in Greek as the Pentateuch...
, 1st-century astrologer who wrote in Greek - Dorotheus of TyreDorotheus of TyreSaint Dorotheus bishop of Tyre is traditionally credited with an Acts of the Seventy Apostles , who were sent out according to the Gospel of Luke 10:1....
, 3rd-century Christian presbyter and later bishop of Tyre (also referred to as Dorotheus of Antioch)