1. Michael Radu, “The Burden of Eastern Orthodoxy”, in Orbis, vol. 42, no. 2 (Spring 1998), p. 283.
2. The archbishops of Ohrid were designated by the Byzantine emperors. More on the relations between the Church and state in this empire: Gilbert Dagron, Emperor and Priest: The Imperial Office in Byzantium (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 223–312.
3. Hugh Poulton, Who Are the Macedonians?, 2nd ed. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000), pp. 90–92.
4. Slavko Dimeski, Istorija na Makedonskata pravoslavna crkva (Skopje: Makedonska Kniga, 1989), pp. 1120–1190.
5. Cane Mojanoski, Avtokefalnosta na Makedonskata pravoslavna crkva (dokumenti) (Skopje: Makedonska iskra, 2004), pp. 389–395.