Theodosius of Skopje

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Theodosius of Skopje (Bulgarian: Теодосий Скопски, Macedonian: Теодосиј(а) Скопски; 1846–1926) was a Bulgarian religious figure, scholar and translator of the Bulgarian language from Macedonia. He was initially involved in the struggle for an autonomous Bulgarian Church and later in his life, he became a member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Although he was named Metropolitan Bishop of the Bulgarian Exarchate in Skopje, he is known for his failed attempt to establish a separate Macedonian Church as a restoration of the Archbishopric of Ohrid.

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Life Theodosius of Skopje was born as Vasil Iliev Gologanov (Bulgarian and Macedonian: Васил Илиев Гологанов) on 7 January 1846 in the then Slavic populated village of Tarlis (now part of Kato Nevrokopi municipality, Greece) in the Ottoman Empire. Theodosius was the son of the Reverend Iliya Ivanov Gologanov. His brother Ivan Gologanov was a Bulgarian teacher who forged the book Veda Slovena. Theodosius studied in the classical Greek gymnasium in Serres. In 1862 he became a monk under the name of Theodosius in the monastery of Saint John Prodromus near Serres, and later was ordained as a hierodeacon from the Greek Patriarch of Constantinople. Sometime in 1867, he left for Hercegovina, where he worked as a protosingel of Metropolitan Prokopius. After he came back to Bulgarian lands in 1868, Theodosius became a priest in Plovdiv and then in Krichim. In Plovdiv (1867 – 1878), he contacted famous Bulgarian National Revival activists such as Yoakim Gruev, Nayden Gerov and Dragan Manchov. When the Bulgarian Exarchate was established in 1870 he joined it. While in the Krichim Monastery (1869 – 1873), he hid there the founder of the Internal Revolutionary Organization, Vasil Levski. From 1873 he headed the Bulgarian church community…Citește mai mult

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Legacy It is unknown when and how he got the idea to renew the Archbishopric of Ohrid. Per Bulgarian historians, Theodosius' separatism stemmed from his personal hatred of Exarch Joseph I. Petko Slaveykov, including his critics, believed his Macedonism was inspired by Greek propaganda. Macedonian historian Slavko Dimevski considered the religious separatism of Theodosius a form of early Macedonian nationalism. However, Dimevski has been accused by Bulgarian historians to have created a lot of deceptions, misquotations and historical misinterpretations, including in this case. Theodosius is considered a Bulgarian in Bulgaria and an ethnic Macedonian in North Macedonia.