СВЕТИ ЙОАН ЕКЗАРХ - ПЪРВИЯТ БЪЛГАРСКИ ПАТРИАРХ
ST. JOAN EKZARH: THE FIRST BULGARIAN PATRIARCH

Summary/Abstract: The results from Bulgarian Slavic studies articles, papers and monographs, published between 1913 and 2013, are presented in chronological order and allow for three conclusions: 1. The information provided by the translator in the epilogue to Life of St. Anthony the Great in Hlud. 195 from the 14th century on “archbishop Joan” adding “who was Patriarch of the Bulgarian land” is true and dates back to the 10th century; 2. The information provided in an earlier version of the epilogue by the same translator, known from five copies from the 16th -17thcenturies, on “Joan, archbishop of the Bulgarian land” dates back to the period between 907 and 913 AD; 3.”Archbishop Joan” in both versions of the epilogue to the translation of Life of St. Anthony the Great refers to Joan Ekzarh (Joan Exarch), who was archbishop of Bulgaria after 907 AD, and who was enthroned as the first Bulgarian Patriarch on 31st July 913 AD in St. Virgin Mary church in Veliki Preslav.

• Details
• Contents