Leo of Ohrid
archbishop of Ohrid
b. 11th century · d. 1056
Archbishop of Ohrid (Bulgarian line)
Offices
Leo of Ohrid was a leading 11th-century Byzantine churchman as Archbishop of Ohrid (1037–1056) and advocate of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople's views in the theological disputes with the See of Rome, which culminated in the East–West Schism of 1054.
Places
- Ohrid Municipality death
- Byzantine Empire birth
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
What he held
- Unleavened bread in the eucharist The eucharist is to be celebrated with unleavened bread.
In the disputes
- The Great Schism The quarrel of 1053–54 was about unleavened bread and the creed, argued by legates whose commission had lapsed with the pope who sent them.