The question of the Bulgarian patriarchate during the reign of Symeon I the Great and and Peter I (a short survey) Cover Image
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Проблема Болгарского патриархата во время правления Симеона I Великого и Петра I (краткий обзор)
The question of the Bulgarian patriarchate during the reign of Symeon I the Great and and Peter I (a short survey)

Author(s): Mirosław J. Leszka
Subject(s): Middle Ages
Published by: Фондация "Българско историческо наследство"
Keywords: Bulgarian church; 9th–10th centuries; Bulgarian patriarchate; tsar Symeon; tsar Peter

Summary/Abstract: One of the key points of tsar Symeon’s political program was achieving au­tocephaly for the Bulgarian church and making its head a Patriarch. It is pos­sible that the archbishop of Bulgaria was proclaimed a Patriarch (913) without Byzantine consent, but the sources only allow for attempting to show that this matter was reflected in the agreement concluded after Symeon’s death (927 or 933/934) by Peter, his son. The act sym­bolically completed the process of acquiring full maturity and independence by the Church of Bulgaria.

  • Issue Year: 7/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 329-338
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Russian