Saint Panteleimon, Ohrid

Saint Panteleimon
Свети Пантелејмон
The exterior of the monastery
Basic information
Location	Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia
Affiliation	Macedonian Orthodox Church (Eastern Orthodox Church)
District	Plaošnik
Architectural description
Architect(s)	Clement of Ohrid
Architectural type	Middle-Byzantine
Architectural style	Byzantine style
Capacity	3,000

Saint Panteleimon (Macedonian: Свети Пантелеjмон, Sveti Pantelejmon, pronounced [pantɛlɛjˈmɔn]; Greek: Άγιος Παντελεήμων) is a monastery in Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia situated on Plaošnik. It is attributed to Clement of Ohrid, a disciple of Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius. Archaeologists have come to believe that the monastery was the site where the first students of the Glagolitic alphabet (used to translate the Bible into Old Church Slavonic) were taught.

The monastery is believed to have been built when Saint Clement arrived in Ohrid, at the request of Boris I of Bulgaria and restored an old church. Sources say that Saint Clement was not satisfied with the size of the church and therefore built a new one over it and assigned Saint Panteleimon as its patron saint.

Saint Clement used his newly created monastery as a liturgical building and a place for teaching his disciples his variation of the Glagolitic alphabet, known as the Cyrillic script. Clement personally built a crypt inside the monastery in which he was buried after his death in 916; his tomb still exists today.