ЗА ПРЕМЕСТВАНЕТО НА РЕЗИДЕНЦИЯТА НА АВТОКЕФАЛНАТА БЪЛГАРСКА ЦЪРКВА ОТ ОХРИД ВЪВ ВЕЛИКИ ПРЕСЛАВ ПРЕЗ 1156 Г.
ON THE TRANSLOCATION OF THE RESIDENCY OF THE AUTOCEPHALOUS BULGARIAN CHURCH FROM OHRID TO GREAT PRESLAV IN THE YEAR 1156

Summary/Abstract: The Second Crusade (1147-1149) and the Autocephaly of Kliment Smoliatich in Kiev (1147 – 1155) forces Manuel Komnenos, the emperor of Constantinople, and John Komnenos, the archbishop of Ohrid, to reform the churches of which the liturgical language was Slavic (the language of God the Word). In 1150 the diocese of “Justiniana Prima and the whole of Bulgaria” joins the metropolitan of Solun and the residency of the autocephalous Bulgarian church moves from Ohrid to Preslav along with its books, redacted in Strumitsa by John Komnenos. The reform was approved at the antiheretic council in Constantinople in 1156 and Leo was appointed as archbishop, enthroned at the council of the Bulgarian church in Preslav on the 14th of February 1160. The Speech of Cyril the Philosopher of how he converted the Bulgarians (the Legend of Solun) was created to glorify the event. In the Speech it is symbolically reported that a rising of all Bulgarians occurred along with shedding lots of blood for Cyril the Philosopher who was given to them by God the Word.

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