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Alexios I Komnenos, one of the greatest Byzantine emperors, was forced to carry out military and fiscal reforms. As a result, state taxes were notably raised; the powers of tax officials (praktors) were enhanced; and cases of confiscating Church land and other real estate appeared. These general tendencies during Alexios I’s reign are fully confirmed by the data laid out in several letters that Theophylact, the Archbishop of Ohrid, wrote. We learn from them, among other things, that a paroikos (peasant) named Lazarus launched a dispute before the emperor himself, accusing the archbishop of setting fire to his property and then of expelling him from the village. Theophylact was also accused of generating excessive income and possessing a costly estate, as well as of usurping a village near Ohrid. Over the course of the long-standing legal case, by sending letters to influential state officials, he tried to diminish and rebut the accusations. In his defence, he pointed out that attempts were being made to spread hostility against him both among the residents of Ohrid and across Macedonia. Also, he complained that state taxes were raised enormously. Although at a first glance it appears unusual that an archbishop should become entangled in a serious and prolonged dispute with a paroikos, the situation becomes clearer on learning that Lazarus’s grudge was in fact spurred and fully taken advantage of by the state’s tax officials. Through the case of Lazarus, who was used as their mouthpiece, they, in fact, undermined the ownership and immunity rights and privileges of the Archbishopric. All of that worked in favour of raising the income of the state at the expense of that of the Church. In other words, it appears that through the said dispute some sort of “interventionism” in favour of the state and at the Church’s expense was at work.

Prizren's diocese is one of the oldest diocese's seats of the Serbian Church. Based on the scarce historical written sources, its foundation is connected for the 10th century, although archaeological researches move the limits of its diocese's seat (the Church of Virgin Ljeviška) in early Christian period. The inclusion of Prizren's Diocese in the network of the Serbian diocese's seats and its separation from the jurisdiction of Ohrid's Diocese from church-canonical aspect followed church-legal provisions of Parliament's fathers by use of the Canon 17 of Halkidon's Parliament, which will be the basis for the establishing of the first structure of the Serbian church under the St. Sava in Studenica in 1219.

The author states that the area of Bosnia was in historical sources more present as the area of the Serbian state. Although it belonged to Ohridska Archbishopric from jurisdictional point of view, its state and ecclesiastical boundaries were being shifted depending upon the political- ecclesiastical circumstances in the surrounding. The struggle of Hungary and Rome Catholic Archbishoprics so as to subject it to their sphere of interest is clearly visible in the period of Ban Kulin ruling.