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Demetrios Chomatenos

d. c. 1236 · 13th century · Also known as Demetrius Chomatianus

Demetrios Chomatenos was archbishop of Ohrid from 1216 until the 1230s and a leading canon lawyer of the Orthodox Church, whose rulings survive in a large collection. Around 1227 he crowned Theodore Komnenos Doukas emperor at Thessalonica, defying the patriarch at Nicaea and supporting Epirote claims to lead the Byzantine world. His writings are an important source for society in the western Balkans.

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Empire of Thessalonica

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