Demetrios Chomatenos

Demetrios Chomatenos or Chomatian (Greek: Δημήτριος Χωματηνός, 13th. century), Archbishop of Ohrid from 1216 to 1236, was a Byzantine priest and judge.

His comprehensive legal education allowed him to exert substantial influence as judge, arbiter, confessor and advisor to the Byzantine Imperial house. This makes him a characteristic representative of a time where judicial power was devolving from the weakened secular authorities to the Church, and also one of the last legal practitioners in full command of Justinian's laws as recovered by the Macedonian legal renaissance.

Some 150 of Chomatenos' legal files have remained, allowing legal historians to construct a reasonably complete picture of the legal and institutional framework of the late Byzantine Empire.

References

• Günter Prinzing (ed.), Demetrii Chomateni Ponemata diaphora (Corpus fontium historiae Byzantinae 38). Berlin 2002. ISBN 3-11-015612-1
• Simon, Dieter (2001). "Chomatian, Demetrios". In Michael Stolleis (ed.) (in German). Juristen: ein biographisches Lexikon; von der Antike bis zum 20. Jahrhundert (2nd edition ed.). München: Beck. pp. 129. ISBN 3406 45957 9. 

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