Theodora (given name)
Theodora or Teodora is the feminine form of the name Theodore and is composed of the Greek words for doron, gift ',' present ' and theos for God ' together and therefore means gift of God or God's gift. In reversing the order of the two parts of the name, there is the common female first name in the German Dorothea. The corresponding thereto male first name Dorotheus is common only in ancient Greek and in the Byzantine Church.
Name winners
Single Name
- Flavia Maximiana Theodora, daughter of Maximian and second wife of Constantius I..
- Theodora and Didymus, Christian Martyr († 304)
- Theodora, 500-548, wife of Emperor Justinian I.
- Theodora II to 810-867, wife of Emperor Theophilos
- Theodora, 930 -, daughter of the Emperor Constantine VII and wife of Emperor John Tzimiskes
- Theodora III. , 985-1056, ruling Byzantine Empress 1055/56
- Theodora Comnena (Jerusalem), niece of the Emperor Manuel I Comnenus, wife of King Baldwin III. of Jerusalem and later lover of Andronikos I Komnenos
- Theodora Epsicopa in Rome, 8th century, mother of Pope Paschal I, shown in the Zeno Chapel of the church of Santa Prassede in Rome
- Theodora of Tusculum, noble Roman woman of the 10th century, the wife of Theophylact, which provided for the temporary decline of the papacy
- Theodora Petraliphaina ( Holy Theodora of Arta; * 1225, † after 1270) was married to Michael II Komnenos Doukas Angelos, Despot of Epirus
- Theodora the Younger, daughter of Theodora of Tusculum
First name
- Teodora Selvo, daughter of the Emperor Constantine X., wife of the Doge Domenico Selvo
- Teodora Staugaitienė (* 1945), Lithuanian lawyer, former judge of the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court of Lithuania
- Birutė Visokavičienė Teodora ( b. 1946 ), Lithuanian politician, Member of the Seimas
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