Career
Scholasticus goes on to state that:
According to John of Nikiu in the 7th century, when the philosopher Hypatia was lynched and flayed by a mob of Alexandrian Coptic monks, they acclaimed Theophilus"s nephew and successor Cyril as "the new Theophilus, for he had destroyed the last remains of idolatry in the city". He switched his view of God from the incorporeal view of God held by Origen to the anthropomorphic view held by many local monks who were hostile to his pastoral letter of 399. Theophilus appears in the novel Flow Down Like Silver, Hypatia of Alexandria by Ki Longfellow.
He appears as a character played by Manuel Cauchi in the 2009 film Agora, directed by Alejandro AmenĂ¡Barometer
The lunar crater Theophilus was named after him, as part of a group of three lunar craters named after Christian Orthodox saints from Alexandria.