Theophylact of Ochrid Blessed Theophylactus of Ohrid (ca.
1050/60-ca. 1108) was one of the most famous Byzantine biblical
scholards and exegetes; he was born on the Greek island of
Euboia, close to Athens, some time between 1050 and 1060. He
pursued an education in Constantinople to be study under the
finest teachers of literature and rhetoric of his time and
became one of the clergy of the Great Church there. He was
appointed professor of rhetoric at the patriarchal academy and
tutor to the emperor's children. As a relatively young man, he
was consecrated as bishop and sent, against his will, to Ochrid,
where he was the Metropolitan of the Church in Bulgaria for
twenty-five years. An inspired theologian and orator, he has
left many homilies and, most important, a commentary on the
whole New Testament (Theophylactus completed extensive biblical
commentaries on the four Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, and
the New testament Epistles. There is also supposed to be a
commentary on the Greek text of the Psalms a