Theophilus Antecessor (; ) was a Byzantine jurist, translator from Latin to Greek and teacher.
Biography Theophilus lived in Constantinople during the 6th century. Nothing is known of his life except that he was a (member of the Crown Council) and professor of law at the University of Constantinople (). He is last mentioned in AD 533.Const. Tanta 11.
Works Theophilus, working with Tribonian and Dorotheus, authored the Institutiones, the first section of the Corpus Juris Civilis, by authority and order of the emperor Justinian.Const. Imperatoriam 3; Omnem 2; Tanta 11. He also was heavily involved in the compilation of the Codex vetusConst. Haec 1; Summa 2. and the Digesta.Const. Tanta/δέδωκεν 9.
Const. Tanta also informs that he was the compiler of a Greek paraphrase of the Institutiones as well as the indices to at least the first 19 volumes (out of 50) of the Digesta.
His paraphrase is the only juridical work in Greek from the times of Justinian to have survived almost in its entirety.
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