Kičevo Monastery

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Icon of the Bulgarian Tsar Boris I in the monastery, the name has been retouched

The kičevo monastery ( Cyrillic Кичевски манастир ) is the "Holy Virgin Mother of God ," the Blessed Virgin Mary (Bulgarian / Macedonian: Света Богородица Пречиста / Sweta Bogorodiza ) dedicated. It is located on the Tzotzan mountain (920 m above sea ​​level ) ten kilometers from the city of Kičevo in the Republic of North Macedonia .

history

Monastery "Holy Virgin Bogorodica"

The monastery was founded before the middle of the 16th century. In the 1570s, a stone church was built on the site of today's church. In 1843 the monastery was set on fire by Albanians from Debar and the church remained standing. The church was demolished at the behest of Hegumen Hadschi Teodosius in order to build a new church and other monastery complexes. According to him, many of the old Bulgarian books that were in the monastery complex were burned on the orders of Metropolitan Meletij von Debar in 1848. The icons in today's church were made between 1848 and 1880, a large part of which was created by the painter Ditscho Zograf.

In 1873 "Kozma of Debar", a nephew of the previous hegumen Hadzhi Teodosius and future Metropolitan of Debar, was elected hegumen of the monastery. In the following year, however, he was called to Mount Athos and Metropolitan Antim von Debar looted the monastery and destroyed its archive.

In 1881 the monastery was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Bulgarian Exarchate . In the 19th century the monastery ran a monastery school for the training of priests. One of the students was the enlightener and writer of the Bulgarian Revival, Kiril Pejtschinowitsch . In the period from 1884 to 1911 Sofronij von Pretschista was Hegumen of the monastery. In 1888 a new, more modern school was built in the monastery, financed by the Bulgarian Exarchate. In this way, the Bulgarian schools in Kičevo could be well looked after.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ivan Snegarow : History of the Patriarch of Ochrid . tape 2 . Academic publishing house "Prof. Marin Drinow ", Sofia 1995, ISBN 954-430-345-6 , p. 447-449 .
  2. ↑ Macedonia . In: Album Almanac . Self-published, Sofia 1931, p. 717 .

Coordinates: 41 ° 30 ′ 1.7 ″  N , 21 ° 0 ′ 26.6 ″  E