Kiril Živković

Kiril Živković
Born 1730
Pirot, Ottoman Empire (now Serbia)
Died 1807 (aged 77)
Pakrac, Habsburg Empire
Residence Bačka
Mount Athos
Pakrac
Occupation monk, bishop, writer
Notable work
Title Bishop of Pakrac
Term 1786–1807
Predecessor Pavle Avakumović
Successor Josif Putnik

Kiril Živković also spelled Kiril Zhivkovich (Bulgarian: Кирил Живкович, Serbian Cyrillic: Кирил Живковић; Pirot, Ottoman Empire, 1730 – Pakrac, Habsburg Empire, 1807) was a Bulgarian-born, Serbian writer and Orthodox bishop.

Biography

According to Kyril himself, he was born "in the city of Pirot, in Bulgarian lands, in the year 1730".[1] Pirot at the time was part of the Sanjak of Niš of the Ottoman Empire (now in Serbia). As a seven-year-old, he fled with his parents to the village of Futog in Bačka in the Habsburg Empire (now in Serbia), where he was ordained as the priest of the Serbian Patriarchate of Peć.[2] Afterwards Zhivkovich became a monk at the Bulgarian Orthodox Zograf Monastery on Mount Athos.[3] He travelled and studied throughout the Balkans, Russia, and Italy. In 1778 he was elevated to the rank of abbot (archimandrite) by Metropolitan Vikentije Jovanović-Vidak. That same year he was put in charge of Grgeteg monastery. Eight years later, on the 20th of June 1786, Metropolitan Mojsije Putnik of Sremski Karlovci made him Bishop of the Serbian Orthodox Pakrac eparchy, a position he would hold from 1786 to 1807.[4] He published two books: in Vienna in 1794: Domentijan and The Lives of Serbian Saints and Enlighteners Simeon and Sava,[5][6] and a redaction of Peter Damascene writings in Buda in 1803.[7] He also left behind several unpublished manuscripts.

Most prominent from his unpublished writings is the Manuscript from Temska Monastery. This manuscript is an important document in that it renders the state of the little documented Torlakian dialects from 1764 written, according to the author, in "simple Bulgarian language".[8] He died on 12 August 1807 in Pakrac, Habsburg Empire.[9][10]

References

  1. ↑ Нешев, Георги. Борба за извоюване на църковнонационална независимост, - в: Палешутски, К., Огнянов, Л., Манчев, К., Василев, В., Данчева-Василева, А., Тодев, И., Нешев, Г., Дойнов, С., Куманов, М., Каймакамова, М., Мечев, К. и Койчева, Е. 681–1948 Из историята на българския народ и държава. Изследвания, анализи, преоценки. София: Издателство «Пеликан Алфа». 1993
  2. ↑ Сава (Вуковић), епископ шумадијски, Настојатељи манастира Гргетега, Манастир Гргетег. Прилози монографији, Нови Сад 1990, pp. 9—39.
  3. ↑ Българският език през ХХ век, Василка Радевар Pensoft Publishers, 2001, ISBN 9546421138,
  4. ↑ Srpska pravoslavna crkva (Serbian Orthodox Church) (1991), Serbian Orthodox Church: its past and present, Volume 8 (in Serbian), Serbian Patriarchy, p. 97, Епископ Кирил Живковић ( 1 786 — 1 807) више од две деценије управљао је Пакрачком епархијом и његовом заслугом Епископска књижница у Пакрацу је ...
  5. ↑ М. Грујић, Пакрачка епархија, Нови Сад 1930
  6. ↑ Начало на Българското възраждане, Боян Пенев, Кама, 2005, стр. 43.
  7. ↑ http://www.istorijskabiblioteka.com/art:kiril-zivkovic
  8. ↑ „Из душевного обреда в’ неделных днех слова избрана. На прости язык болгарскій“ ("Selected words from the weekly mental rituals. In simple Bulgarian language"), 1764.
  9. ↑ Българскиият език през 20-ти век, Василка Радева, Pensoft Publishers, 2001, ISBN 954-642-113-8, стр. 280.
  10. ↑ Ј. Радонић—М. Костић, Српске привилегије од 1690 до 1792, Београд 1954

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