18. THESSALONICENSIS, magister rhetorum and magnae ecclesiae protecdicus, lived about 1160, and embraced the wide-spread Bogomilian heresy, for which he suffered severe persecutions till he returned to the orthedox church. He wrote Confessio Brevis, extant in Leo Allatius's De Consensü utriusque Ecclesiae, lib. 2. c.12. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. xi. p. 702.)