Archbishop of Ohrid Leo Mung

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  • TrueMacedonian
    Senior Member
    • Jan 2009
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    Archbishop of Ohrid Leo Mung

    Leo Mung was a 12th or 13th century Jew who converted to christianity and became the Archbishop of Ohrid. Is there any more info that anyone can share on this individual?
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  • Makedonetz
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    • Apr 2010
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    There is evidence of Jewish settlement in Nikopol in 967. In the early 12th century Leo Mung, born a Jew and later a pupil of the 11th-century Bulgarian talmudist Tobiah b. Eliezer, became archbishop of the diocese of Ochrida and Primate of Bulgaria. The Bogomil movement, a Christian sect that spread through Bulgaria in the 11th century, rejected most books of the Old Testament, but awakened interest in Judaism as the source of certain Christian theological doctrines. The Bulgarian attitude to Jews at the time was generally favorable; Jewish merchants from Italy and Ragusa (Dubrovnik) who settled in Bulgaria received royal privileges. Also during the Crusades many Jews may have found refuge in Bulgaria. Jacob b. Elijah in his polemical letter to the apostate Pablo Christiani mentions two Jews who were thrown from a mountaintop for refusing to obey the order of Czar John Asen II (1218–41) to put out the eyes of Theodore I Angelus, Greek ruler of Salonika in 1230. Czar Ivan Alexander (1331–71) married a Jewish woman named Sarah, who took the name Theodora on her baptism; her influence on state affairs was considerable. The church's struggle with heresy in Bulgaria also affected the Jews. The Church Council of 1352 excommunicated Jews and heretics. Three Jews were condemned to death on a false charge of blaspheming saints. Although the verdict was repealed by the czar, the mob took vengeance on the accused.
    Last edited by Makedonetz; 05-19-2010, 06:07 AM.
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    • TrueMacedonian
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      • Jan 2009
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      #3
      Where did you obtain this info on Mung?
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      • Makedonetz
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        • Apr 2010
        • 1080

        #4
        Encyclopedia of Jewish and Israeli history, politics and culture, with biographies, statistics, articles and documents on topics from anti-Semitism to Zionism.
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