Theophylact of Ohrid (ca. 1050–1108)

A. EDWARD SIECIENSKI

Byzantine theologian and ecclesiastic, Theophylact of Ohrid was born in Euboea, Greece, and became a student of Michael Psellos. He was appointed archbishop of Ohrid (in Bulgaria) in 1090, writing learned commentaries on both the Old and New Testaments. In his dealing with the West, Theophylact defended the traditional Eastern position on the filioque and the papacy, while simultaneously urging the Byzantines to charity with regard to other Latin divergent ecclesiastical practices.

SEE ALSO: Ecumenism, Orthodoxy and Filioque; Papacy

Plate 72 Ukrainian folk group celebrating the feast of the Theophany in the open-air Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life, Pyrogovo. Photo © Viktor Mikheyev/Shutterstock.

REFERENCES AND SUGGESTED READINGS

Mullett, M. (1997) Theophylact ofOchrid: Reading the Letters of a Byzantine Archbishop. Birming­ham Byzantine and Ottoman Monographs 2. London: Variorum.

Obolensky, D. (1988) “Theophylact of Ohrid,” in Six Byzantine Portraits. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 34–82.