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Saint Theophylact, Archbishop of Ohrid 1/13/2013
Saint Theophylact was born on the island of Euripos and was educated in Constantinople under the best masters at the time. Having joined the clergy of the Great Church of St Sophia he was eventually consecrated bishop against his will and was sent to Ohrid, where he spent twenty-five years (1082-1108). Homatian of Ohrid calls him “the wisest bishop”. He was distinguished by his broad education, secular and theological, his refined Byzantine taste, melancholic and sensitive. Among the Slavs on the Balkan he felt as exiled to a land of barbarians. He wrote “Commentaries” on the four Gospels and the other books of the New Testament. They are the best works of this kind after the commentaries of Saint John Chrysostom, and are very useful and precious to the present day. From among his other works well known are his “Letters” and “Life of Saint Clement of Ohrid“. In his old age, he left for Thessalonica, where he is considered to have given up his soul to God.
