Demetrii Chomateni Ponemata Diaphora

The author, well-known as an outstanding Byzantine canonist, was Archbishop of Ohrid (approx. 1216–1236) and practically assumed the position of a Patriarch. The Corpus of the Pone-mata diaphora (personal and official letters, expert testimonies and verdicts and proceedings of the Ohrid Synodal Court) is his major work. It pro—vides complex source material of major importance in two ways: historically because of the detailed information on the political and ecclesiastical history of South-Eas…