Охридският архиепископ Доротей (PLP 5905)
Dorotheus, archbishop of Ohrid (PLP 5905)

Summary/Abstract: The author outlines the biography of Dorotheus (PLP 5905), a fifteenth-century Archbishop of Bulgaria, on the basis of a Romanian vita of Patriarch Niphon of Constantinople (PLP 20680) and of a Slavonic manuscript colophon from AD 1466. Dorotheus, who spoke both Greek and Slavonic, was a monk of the Vatopedi Monastery on Mount Athos. Between ca. 1450 and ca. 1455, he resided first in the Epirote city of Arta, then in the Albanian city of Krujë. An Ottoman offensive against the Albanian leader Skanderbeg forced him to seek refuge in Ohrid, where at some point before 1465 he was proclaimed Archbishop of Bulgaria. In 1466, Sultan Mehmed II deposed him in favour of another cleric, Mark Xylokarabes (PLP 20958). Dorotheus went to Constantinople and tried to regain his diocese but died soon thereafter, probably of the plague.

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