Demetrios Chomatenos
Demetrios Chomatenos or Chomatianos (
Byzantine
priest and judge.
His comprehensive legal education allowed him to exert substantial influence as judge,
Macedonian
legal renaissance.
According to the eminent Byzantinist
Dyrrachion in the north to Ioannina and Arta in the south, plaintiffs and defendants brought their problems to the humane and learned Archbishop".[1] Some 150 of Chomatenos' case files have survived,[2]
allowing legal historians to construct a reasonably complete picture of the legal and institutional framework of the late Byzantine Empire.
He also played an important role in the rivalry of the two main post-
Thessalonica
.
An important ecclesiastical and jurisdictional dispute arose soon after his arrival in Ohrid (1216). In that time, the Eastern Orthodox eparchies in Serbia (
Sava Nemanjić as the first Serbian Archbishop. Demetrios Chomatenos protested and in the spring of 1220 he sent bishop Jovan of Skopje as an envoy to Archbishop Sava, but with no result. Serbia was lost to his jurisdiction, and his later attempts to remedy the situation in 1233 were also unsuccessful.[3]
References
- ^ Nicol 1976, pp. 10–11.
- ^ Nicol 1976, p. 11.
- ^ Ćirković 2004, p. 44.
Sources
- Günter Prinzing (ed.), Demetrii Chomateni Ponemata diaphora (ISBN 3-11-015612-1
- Nicol, Donald M. (1976). "Refugees, Mixed Population and Local Patriotism in Epiros and Western Macedonia after the Fourth Crusade". XVe Congrès international d'études byzantines (Athènes, 1976), Rapports et corapports I. Athens. pp. 3–33.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Simon, Dieter (2001). "Chomatian, Demetrios". In Michael Stolleis (ed.). Juristen: ein biographisches Lexikon; von der Antike bis zum 20. Jahrhundert (in German) (2nd ed.). München: Beck. p. 129. ISBN 3-406-45957-9.
- Popović, Svetlana (2002). "The Serbian Episcopal sees in the thirteenth century (Српска епископска седишта у XIII веку)". Старинар (51: 2001): 171–184.
- ISBN 9781405142915.
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