Theophylact of Ohrid
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Byzantine archbishop and saint
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Theophylact was a Byzantine archbishop of Ohrid and commentator on the Bible. Life Theophylact was born in the mid-11th century at Euripus in Euboea, at the time part of the Byzantine Empire . He became a deacon at Constantinople, attained a high reputation as a scholar, and became the tutor of Constantine Doukas , son of the Emperor Michael VII, for whom he wrote The Education of Princes. In about 1078 he moved to the Province of Bulgaria where he became the archbishop of Achrida .
