Theophylaktos congratulated Ioannes Komnenos, son of the sebastokrator, for reviving the bishoprics of Prespa and Diabolis, showing a spirit of correctness and justice against those who wronged them. He asked Ioannes to take a further step, to offer a sigillion for the paroikoi of Diabolis, so that they might return from the forests where they had taken refuge from government exactions. Theophylaktos had visited Diabolis, found its church in a lamentable state, deserted by its bishop and clergy as a result of abuse by government officials