Hilarion of Makariopolis
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Hilarion of Makariopolis (Bulgarian: Иларион Макариополски Ilarion Makariopolski, Greek: Ιλαρίων Μακαριουπόλεως, born Stoyan Stoyanov Mihaylovski, Bulgarian: Стоян Стоянов Михайловски; 1812–1875) was a 19th-century Bulgarian cleric and one of the leaders of the struggle for an autonomous Bulgarian church.
He was born in
Georgi Rakovski, Ilarion Makariopolski took an active part in the Macedonian revolutionary society. Since 1844, he guided the Bulgarian church struggle from Constantinople together with Neofit Bozveli
, and was exiled to Mount Athos between 1845 and 1850.
On 3 April 1860, during
Veles and Paisius of Plovdiv
.
After the Ottoman government of
firman promulgated on February 28 (the Julian calendar), 1870, Ilarion was a member of the Provisional Mixed Exarchic Council and of the first Synod
.
Upon the unilateral declaration by
Antim I of an independent national church of the Bulgarians in May 1872, Ilarion was anathematized by the Patriarchal Synod. The condemnation was later affirmed at the Council in Constantinople
in September the same year.
Since 1872, he was Metropolitan of
Bulgarian St Stephen Church
in the city.
Ilarion Ridge in Breznik Heights on Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, is named for Ilarion Makariopolski.
References
- ^ MacDermott, Mercia (1962). A History of Bulgaria 1395–1885. New York: Frederick A. Praeger. p. 146. Retrieved 18 June 2021 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Crampton, Richard (2005). A Concise History of Bulgaria (2nd ed.). Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, San Paolo: Cambridge University Press. pp. 69-71.
External links
- Media related to Hilarion of Makariopolis at Wikimedia Commons
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