Clement of Ohrid

'Saint Kliment' redirects here. For other uses, see Saint Kliment (disambiguation).

Saint

Clement of Ohrid
Icon of Saint Clement of Ohrid from the Orthodox Zograf monastery on Mount Athos in Greece, depicted as a disciple of Saints Cyril and Methodius.
One of the Seven Apostles of Bulgaria, Disciple of Saints Cyril and Methodius
Bornc. 830–840
Byzantine or First Bulgarian Empire[1][2]
Died(916-07-27)July 27, 916 (date of burial)
Ohrid, Bulgarian Empire[3]
(now North Macedonia)
Venerated inEastern Orthodox Church, Catholic Church
Feast27 July[4]
AttributesGlagolitic alphabet, Cyrillic script
PatronageOhrid, North Macedonia[5]

Saint Clement (or Kliment) of Ohrid (Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian: Климент Охридски, Kliment Ohridski; Greek: Κλήμης τῆς Ἀχρίδας, Klḗmēs tē̂s Akhrídas; Slovak: Kliment Ochridský; c. 830 – 916) was one of the first medieval Bulgarian saints,[a] scholar, writer, and apostle to the Slavs.[7][8][9][10][11] He was one of the most prominent disciples of Cyril and Methodius and is often associated with the creation of the Glagolitic and Cyrillic scripts, especially their popularisation among Christianised Slavs. He was the founder of the Ohrid Literary School and is regarded as a patron of education and language by some Slavic people. He is considered to be the first bishop of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church,[b][13] one of the Seven Apostles of Bulgarian Orthodox Church since the 10th century, and one of the premier saints of modern Bulgaria.[14] The mission of Clement was the crucial factor which transformed the Slavs in then Kutmichevitsa (present-day Macedonia)[c] into Bulgarians.[15] Clement is also the patron saint of North Macedonia, the city of Ohrid[5] and the Macedonian Orthodox Church.[16][17]

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  2. ^ Alban Butler, Paul Burns and David Hugh Farmer, Butler's Lives of the Saints, Volume 7, A&C Black, 1995, ISBN 0860122565, p. 220.
  3. ^ Karl Cordell, Stefan Wolff, Ethnic Conflict: Causes, Consequences, and Responses, (Polity Press, 2009), 64.
  4. ^ "Western American Diocese - July 27". westserbdio.org. Archived from the original on 1 May 2017. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
  5. ^ a b "Patron Saints Index: Saint Clement of Ohrid". saints.sqpn.com. Archived from the original on 2008-06-20. Retrieved 2008-06-12.
  6. ^ "XI Century", Official site, Sofia: Sofia University.
  7. ^ Who are the Macedonians? Hugh Poulton, C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, 2000, ISBN 1850655340, p. 19.
  8. ^ Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions, Gerald H. Anderson, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1999, ISBN 0802846807, p. 138.
  9. ^ A Concise History of Bulgaria, R. J. Crampton, Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN 0521616379, p. 15.
  10. ^ Byzantium's Balkan Frontier: A Political Study of the Northern Balkans, 900-1204, Paul Stephenson, Cambridge University Press, 2000, ISBN 0521770173, pp. 78-79.
  11. ^ The A to Z of the Orthodox Church, Michael Prokurat, Alexander Golitzin, Michael D. Peterson, Rowman & Littlefield, 2010, ISBN 0810876027, p. 91.
  12. ^ Theophylact of Ohrid, cited in Ramet, Pedro (1989), Religion and Nationalism in Soviet and East European Politics, p. 373, ISBN 0-8223-0891-6.
  13. ^ Bakalov, Georgi; Kumanov, Milen (2003). "KUTMICHEVITSA (Kutmichinitsa)". History of Bulgaria electronic edition (in Bulgarian). Sofia: Trud, Sirma. ISBN 954528613X.
  14. ^ Michael Prokurat et al., The A to Z of the Orthodox Church, Scarecrow Press, 2010, ISBN 1461664039, p. 91.
  15. ^ John Van Antwerp Fine, The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century, University of Michigan Press, 1991, ISBN 0472081497, pp. 127-128.
  16. ^ Official site of the Macedonian orthodox church Archived 2010-03-24 at the Wayback Machine
  17. ^ "Macedonia Travel info". Archived from the original on 2010-11-01. Retrieved 2010-09-19.


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