Cyrilus and Methodius

[Prokomenos]

Cyrilus and Methodius

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Cyril (827-869) and Methodius (c. 826-884), brothers, born in Thessalonika -Macedonia, known as the "apostles of the Slavs".

Both were outstanding scholars, theologians, and linguists. In 860, Cyril (originally named Constantine), who had gone on a mission to the Arabs and been professor of philosophy at the patriarchal school in Constantinople, worked with Methodius, the abbot of a Greek monastery, for the conversion of the Khazars northeast of the Black Sea. In 862, when Prince Rostislav of Great Moravia asked Constantinople for missionaries, the emperor Michael III and the patriarch Photius named Cyril and Methodius. In 863, they started their work among the Slavs, using Slavonic in the liturgy. They translated the Holy Scriptures into the language later known as Old Church Slavonic (or Old Bulgarian) and invented a Slavic alphabet based on Greek characters that in its final Cyrillic form is still in use as the alphabet for modern Russian and a number of other Slavic languages.

The posthumous influence of Cyril and Methodius reached distant Kiev in Russia and left traces among the Slavs of Croatia, Bohemia, and Poland. Their feast day in the Orthodox church is May 11.


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[Psaltis]

Bulgarians claim that they are Bulgarian, Skopjians claim that they were Skopjian but they were Greeks from Thessaloniki. That is the bottom line. They gave the Slavs their alphabet.

[Greece4Ever]

Cyrilus and Methodius were definately Greek. Those people Bulgars, Skops and so on are in denial. They dont want to believe that the Greeks basically gave them the seed to grow. With out us they would be 1000 years behind.