Constantine Cabasilas

Saint Constantine Cabasilas was Archbishop of Ohrid in the second half of the thirteenth century. He belonged to the noble Kabasilas family; before 1235 he had been archbishop of Strumitsa and metropolitan of Dyrrhachium (Durrës), and before the middle of the 1250s he received the prestigious see of Ohrid.

Emperor Theodore II Laskaris, suspecting his loyalty because of his brothers John and Theodore, supporters of the Despot of Epirus, kept him in prison until 1259, when Michael VIII Palaiologos freed him and let him return to his see. A fresco shows him in the church of Saint Mary Peribleptos in Ohrid.

The calendar of the Orthodox Church of North Macedonia commemorates him on 18 October in the old style, which is 31 October in the new. The source says nothing about his writings or about his end.