Clement of Ohrid
Kliment of Ohrid ( Bulg Климент Охридски / Kliment Ohridski, maz Климент Охридски / Kliment Ohridski, . * Around 840, † 27 July 916 in Ohrid) was a scholar and disciple of St. Cyril and Methodius, founders of monasteries and Archbishop of " Belica and Ohrid ".
Life
Kliment participated in Methodius ' mission in Great Moravia. After his death he was the leader of the Slav party in the dispute with the Latin clergy, who had come from the eastern kingdom. After a short time in prison, he was probably 885 expelled from Great Moravia and turned along with Angelarij and Naum in the First Bulgarian Empire.
Tsar Boris I and his successor Tsar Simeon I entrusted the two monks involved in the education of future Bulgarian clergy in the country just converted to Christianity. After the adoption of Christianity was at first the Greek, which had been introduced by Byzantine missionaries, the church language in Bulgaria. To back the Byzantine influence on his state, Boris I was interested in the establishment of the Slavic language in worship.
First, under the sole management Kliment of Ohrid, the school was built next to the lake. Later he was supported Naum, which initially led the schools in Pliska and Preslav. In the schools established by them, the Old Church Slavonic liturgical language was taught as. They made Ohrid, Pliska and Preslav addition, another church and cultural center by building churches, monasteries built (including the monasteries " Panteleimon " and Sveti Naum ) and the school expanded, were trained in the numerous clerics. The School of Ohrid has a large part of it " ( old) Bulgarian" spawned literature. Kliment is, according to tradition 886-893 3,500 students have been trained in the new written language.
Him and the development of the Cyrillic alphabet is often attributed, however, is a similarly interpreted message in the Legenda Ochridica actually probably just that he has reformed the Glagolitic alphabet.
After a dispute with the Tsar Simeon I, he was appointed bishop of the 893 local remote Drembica ( Velika ), which came close to an exile. Later Kliment gained the favor of the ruler again and became archbishop of Ohrid. He founded the Panteleimon Monastery in Varos.
After his death in 916 he was buried in the Church of St. Panteleimon in Ohrid. When the Ottomans this church transformed into a mosque in the 15th century, Kliment remains were reburied in the Ohrid church Sveta Bogorodica. His great devotion led under Tsar Samuil for canonization as a saint ( main festival 27th of July).
Worship
Today, several churches, the Universities of Sofia and Bitola, as well as the Bulgarian Antarctic Station on the island of Livingston carry the name Kliment.