Sinodik of Tsar Boril

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The Sinodik of Tsar Boril ( Bulgarian Борилов синодик / Borilov Sinodik) is a written document of the Bulgarian theology and church history from the 13th century.

After the assassination of the Bulgarian Tsar Kaloyan in 1207, the Boljar Boril was crowned the new Tsar. He married Kalojan's widow and sought further stability for his country by approaching the Emperor of Nikaia . Domestically, he tried through another marriage with a Latin Princess and the support of Hungary and the Latin Empire against secessionist attempts more powerful Bolyars (u. A. Alexius Slav and Borils brother Stres proceed and assistance of) national church , in which he compared the Bogomils was going on, his power to strengthen.

Against this background, Boril convened a church synod in February 1211 in the Bulgarian capital Tarnowo . During the synod, an independent text (Sinodik) was developed on the basis of an older Byzantine synodocon. The text was published in the 13./14. In the 19th century, Patriarch Euthymios of Tarnowo added the sections Report on the Renewal of the Bulgarian Patriarchate , The Memory of the Bulgarian Tsars , and the lists of the Patriarchs of Preslav and Tarnowo and the Metropolitans . The writing is only preserved in two manuscripts of the extended text. With the spread of the influence of the Tarnovo School and after the conquest of Bulgaria by the Ottomans in 1396, the Sinodik of Tsar Boril was used as the basis for Serbian and Russian Sinodiks.

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