Ohrid

The city changed masters often in the centuries that followed, but the archbishopric endured. Stefan Dušan took Ohrid for Serbia in 1334; after his death it passed between Albanian lords and Prince Marko of Prilep until Bayezid I captured it for the Ottomans in 1395. The sultans left the church its independence, yet when the archbishop and many townspeople sided with Skanderbeg's revolt, Mehmed II deposed him in 1466 and deported him to Istanbul with his clergy and a large number of citizens. Even so, by the early 16th century the archbishopric had reached its widest extent, its authority running from Sofia and Vidin to Moldavia and even to the Orthodox of Apulia, Calabria, Sicily and Venice. It survived until 1767, when the sultan abolished it at the urging of the Greek church leaders of Istanbul and placed its flock under the Patriarch of Constantinople.