A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

7. Archbishop of THESSALONICA, was a native of Constantinople, and lived during the latter half of the twelfth century. At first he was a monk in the monastery of St. Florus, but afterwards he was appointed to the offices of superintendent of petitions (ἐωὶα τῶν δεήσεων), professor of rhetoric (μαἰ̈στωρ ῥητόρων), and diaconus of the great church of Constantinople. After being bishop elect of Myra, he was at once raised to the archbishopric of Thessalonica, in which office he remained until his death in A. D. 1198. The funeral orations which were delivered upon him by Euthymius and Michael Choniates are still extant in MS. in the Bodleian Library at Oxford.

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