Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Aha ahụ bụ́ Ioannina pụtara na nke mbụ ya n'afọ 879, n'akwụkwọ e dere n'oge Kansụl nke Anọ e nwere na Constantinople, bụ́ nke kwuru banyere otu nwoke aha ya bụ Zekaraya, bụ́ Bishọp nke Ioannine, onye Naupaktos. Mgbe ndị
Ndị Byzantium meriri Bulgaria, na 1020 Emperor Basil nke Abụọ () mere ka ndị bishọp obodo ahụ nọrọ n'okpuru Archbishopric nke Ohrid. Na nkwekọrịta nke nkewa nke ala Byzantine mgbe Agha Ntụte nke Anọ, e kwere Ioannina nkwa na ndị Venetians, mana na ihe omume ahụ, ọ ghọrọ akụkụ nke ọchịchị ọhụrụ nke Epirus, nke Michael I Komnenos Doukas guzobere.