Ilarion Makariopolski

Ilarion Makariopolski

Ilarion Makariopolski ( bulg. Иларион Макариополски ), born as Stoyan Stoyanov Mihajlovsky (bulg. Стоян Стоянов Михайловски * 1812 in Elena ; † 4. June 1875 in Constantinople Opel ) was a Bulgarian clergyman, activist in the struggle for an independent Bulgarian church and Bulgarian National rebirth . Makariopolski was close friends with the freedom fighter Georgi Rakowski and with Christo Stambolski . He had an older brother Nikola , who was the father of Stojan Michajlowski .

In 1858 he was elected bishop of the Bulgarian community in Constantinople.

April 3rd ^July / April 15, 1860 ^greg. During the so-called “Easter Action”, Bishop Ilarion Makariopolski performed a demonstrative act at the Easter service in the Bulgarian church “ Saint Stephen ” in Constantinople by omitting the liturgically prescribed name of the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople and instead praying “des whole Orthodox episcopate ”. In the ecclesiastical canons, this act was equated with the turning away from the head of the church, the Constantinople Patriarch. Since other Bulgarian dignitaries followed his example, Ilarion Makariopolski was again (1861–1864) banished to the Hilandar monastery with other priests .

He died in 1875 and was buried in Constantinople. Ilarion Ridge , a mountain ridge on Greenwich Island in Antarctica , has been named after him since 2005 .

literature

• Hans-Dieter Döpmann : “ Church in Bulgaria from the beginnings to the present ”, Munich, Biblion Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-932331-90-7
• Hering, Gunnar: The Conflict of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Bulgarian Exarchate with the Porte 1890. (1988)
• Constantin Jireček : History of the Bulgarians , Georg Olm Verlag, 1977 (Orig .: F. Tempsky Verlag, Prague, 1876)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Döpmann, 2006, p. 51.

predecessor	Office	successor
-	Metropolitan of Tarnovo 1872 - 1875	Kliment