Editing Theodore of Tarsus (section)

==Canterbury School==
[[File:Staugustinescanterburygravetheodore.jpg|thumb|200px|Gravesite of Theodore at St. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury.]]
Theodore and Hadrian established a school in Canterbury, providing instruction in both Greek and Latin, resulting in a "golden age" of Anglo-Saxon scholarship:<ref name="Bede 1896 loc=4.2">{{harvnb|Bede|Plummer|1896|loc=4.2}}</ref>

:They attracted a large number of students, into whose minds they poured the waters of wholesome knowledge day by day. In addition to instructing them in the Holy Scriptures, they also taught their pupils poetry, [[astronomy]], and the calculation of the church calendar&nbsp;... Never had there been such happy times as these since the English settled Britain.

Theodore also taught sacred music,<ref name="Bede 1896 loc=4.2"/> introduced various texts, knowledge of Eastern saints, and may even have been responsible for the introduction of the [[Litany of the Saints]], a major liturgical innovation, into the West.<ref>{{harvnb|Bischoff|Lapidge|1994|p=172}}.</ref> Some of his thoughts are accessible in the Biblical Commentaries, notes compiled by his students at the Canterbury School.<ref>{{harvnb|Bischoff|Lapidge|1994}}.</ref> Of immense interest is the text, recently attributed to him, called ''[[Laterculus Malalianus]]''.<ref>{{harvnb|Stevenson|1995}}</ref> Overlooked for many years, it was rediscovered in the 1990s, and has since been shown to contain numerous interesting elements reflecting Theodore's trans-Mediterranean formation.<ref>{{harvnb|Siemens|2007|pp=18–28}}</ref> A record of the teaching of Theodore and Adrian is preserved in the [[Leiden Glossary]].{{sfn|Lapidge|2006|pp=33, 87–88}}

Pupils from the school at Canterbury were sent out as [[Benedictine]] abbots in southern England, disseminating the curriculum of Theodore.<ref>{{harvnb|Cantor|1993|p=164}}</ref>

Theodore called other synods, in September 680 at [[Hatfield, Hertfordshire]], confirming English orthodoxy in the [[Monothelite]] controversy,<ref>{{harvnb|Collier|Barham|1840|p=250}}</ref><ref>* {{cite book |last=Curtin |first=D.P. |year=2025 |title=Council of Hatfield: 680 AD |publisher=Dalcassian |isbn=979-8-348-25896-2 }}</ref> and circa 684 at Twyford, near [[Alnwick]] in Northumbria. Lastly, a [[Paenitentiale Theodori|penitential]] composed under his direction is still extant.

Theodore died in 690 at the age of 88, having held the archbishopric for twenty-two years. He was buried in Canterbury at the church known today as [[St Augustine's Abbey]]; at the time of his death it was called St. Peter's church.