Chomatenos, Demetrios

   Archbishop of Ohrid (q.v.) from 1216-ca. 1236; jurist of canon law. Ohrid, situated in western Macedonia (q.v.), belonged to the despotate of Epirus in the first half of the 13th century. His literary works are the chief source for the internal history of the Despotate of Epiros (q.v.), for its relations with neighboring states during the first half of the 13th century, and for the revival of law. His coronation in Thessalonike of Theodore Komnenos Doukas as basileus and autokrator of the Romans (qq.v.) created a schism between the churches of the Despotate of Epiros and the Empire of Nicaea (q.v.) that lasted from 1228-1233. Germanos II, patriarch of Constantinople (qq.v.), condemned the coronation.