Genadij of Veles

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Genadij of Veles

Genadij or Genadij of Veles ( Bulgarian Генадий Велешки / Genadij Veleschki), secular name Georgi Dimitrov (also Georgi Dimitrov wrote, Bulgarian Георги Димитров ; * to 1800 in Potkozhan today in Albania ; † 12. May 1876 in Bitola , today Northern Macedonia ) was a high Bulgarian Orthodox clergyman, Metropolitan of the Diocese of Veles of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church from 1870 to 1876 and a member of the Holy Synod . Previously, he was the clergyman of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, Metropolitan of Debar and Bitola.

Life

Georgi Dimitrov was born in Potkozhan near Pogradec on Lake Ohrid , at that time in the Ottoman Empire in 1800. His father Dimitar Mokrjanin was a teacher in Ohrid . Simeon Radew speaks of a possible Albanian origin, for which he does not find any sources. Georgi Dimitrov became a priest as an adult, took the name Genadij and, after the death of his wife, first became a monk and later a hegumen (head of the monastery ) of a monastery. He later became the archimandrite and protosynkellos of the Bishop of Bitola . In 1840 Genadij was consecrated as the Ecumenical Metropolitan of Bitola.

In the following years Genadij joined the Bulgarian struggle for a Bulgarian church independent of the ecumenical patriarchate (→ Bulgarian Exarchate ). In 1860 he took part in the so-called Easter campaign, during which several Bulgarian metropolitans omitted the liturgically prescribed naming of the Constantinople Patriarch during the Easter service and instead commemorated “the entire Orthodox episcopate” in prayer. In the ecclesiastical canons this act was equated with the non-recognition of the head of the church, the Constantinople Patriarch. However, he was not banished to the Hilandar Monastery like Ilarion Makariopolski and other bishops , instead he was ordained Metropolitan of Debar in 1864 . In 1870 Genadij became Metropolitan of the Diocese of Veles . However, when the Bulgarian Orthodox Church regained its independence through the Ferman for the establishment of the Bulgarian Exarchate in the same year , Genadij resigned from the Greek Patriarchate of Constantinople and became a Bulgarian metropolitan.

He was one of the few Bulgarian clergy in Macedonia, over a Sultan decree ( Berat possessed). For this reason he briefly led the dioceses of Ohrid and Bitola.

family

The educator Ivan Genadiev was his son, the journalist Chariton Genadiev , and the politicians Nikola Genadiev and Pavel Genadiev his grandchildren.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. http://liternet.bg/publish4/bgyrdev/istoria/sluchaiat.htm