Leo of Ohrid

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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 Sophia. At some point shortly after 1025 he was made the autocephalous archbishop of Ohrid.

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.