Saint Theophylact of Ohrid

Homilies and Shorter Works

11th c. · Homily · English translation, 2026

29,616 words · 2.5 hr read· Moderate

Source edition: Theophylacti Bulgariae Archiepiscopi Opera Omnia (Patrologia Graeca 126)

Saint Theophylact of Ohrid is remembered as a commentator on Scripture, yet the Byzantine archbishop also preached at mid-Lent on the Cross, on the Virgin’s entrance into the Temple, and on the last verses of John’s Gospel. He wrote to two very different readers as well: a friend who asked how seriously to take the quarrels with the Latin Church, and the young co-emperor Constantine Doukas, his pupil at the imperial court. This volume brings five of those pieces into modern English, three homilies, the treatise Against the Latins and The Education of a Prince, with an editor’s introduction to the whole.