Leo of Ohrid was a leading 11th Century churchman and advocate of the Eastern Orthodox view.
He is first noted as holding a position in the
Hagia SophiaHagia Sophia is a former Orthodox patriarchal basilica, later a mosque, now a museum in Istanbul, Turkey...
. At some point shortly after 1025 he was made the autocephalous archbishop of
OhridOhrid is a city on the eastern shore of Lake Ohrid in the Republic of Macedonia. It has about 42,000 inhabitants, making it the seventh largest city in the country. The city is the seat of Ohrid Municipality. Ohrid is notable for having once 365 churches, one for each day of the year and has been...
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He presented various ecclesiastical arguments against the western Church. One of his differences with the Western Church was their eating of meat with blood which he felt violated Acts 15:20.
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Leo of Ohrid was a leading 11th Century churchman and advocate of the Eastern Orthodox view.
He is first noted as holding a position in the
Hagia SophiaHagia Sophia is a former Orthodox patriarchal basilica, later a mosque, now a museum in Istanbul, Turkey...
. At some point shortly after 1025 he was made the autocephalous archbishop of
OhridOhrid is a city on the eastern shore of Lake Ohrid in the Republic of Macedonia. It has about 42,000 inhabitants, making it the seventh largest city in the country. The city is the seat of Ohrid Municipality. Ohrid is notable for having once 365 churches, one for each day of the year and has been...
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He presented various ecclesiastical arguments against the western Church. One of his differences with the Western Church was their eating of meat with blood which he felt violated Acts 15:20. His writings were very important in the debates leading up to the schism between the Orthodox and Catholic churches.