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Boris I
Knyaz of Bulgaria
Saint-Knyaz Boris I, Equal-to-the-Apostles
Reign
852–889
Predecessor
Presian
Successor
Vladimir
Died
2 May 907 A monastery near Preslav
Spouse
Maria
Issue
Vladimir Gavrail Simeon I Evpraksiya Anna
House
Krum's dynasty
Father
Presian
Religion
Chalcedonian Christianity
Saint Boris
Equal to the Apostles
Born
827
Died
907
Venerated in
Eastern Orthodoxy
Canonized
906 by the Bulgarian Orthodox Church
Feast
2 May
Patronage
Bulgarian people
Boris I (also Bogoris), venerated as Saint Boris I (Mihail) the Baptizer (Church Slavonic: Борисъ А҃ / Борисъ-Михаилъ Bulgarian: Борис I / Борис-Михаил; died 2 May 907), was the ruler (knyaz) of the First Bulgarian Empire in 852–889. The historian Steven Runciman called him one of the greatest persons in history.[1] Despite a number of military setbacks, the reign of Boris I was marked with significant events that shaped Bulgarian and European history. With the Christianization of Bulgaria in 864, paganism was abolished. A skillful diplomat, Boris I successfully exploited the conflict between the Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Papacy to secure an autocephalous Bulgarian Church, thus dealing with the nobility's concerns about Byzantine interference in Bulgaria's internal affairs.
When in 885 the disciples of Saints Cyril and Methodius were banished from Great Moravia, Boris I gave them refuge and provided assistance which saved the Glagolithic and later promoted the development of the Cyrillic script in Preslav and the Slavic literature. After he abdicated in 889, his eldest son and successor tried to restore the old pagan religion but was deposed by Boris I. During the Council of Preslav which followed that event, the Byzantine clergy was replaced with Bulgarian, and the Greek language was replaced with what is now known as Old Church Slavonic.
He is regarded as a saint in the Orthodox Church, as the Prince and baptizer of Bulgaria, and as Equal-to-the-Apostles, with his feast day observed on May 2 and in Synaxis of all venerable and holy Fathers of Bulgaria (movable holiday on the 2nd Sunday of Pentecost).[2][3]
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Boris III (Bulgarian: Борѝс III ; Boris Treti; 30 January [O.S. 18 January] 1894 – 28 August 1943), originally Boris Klemens Robert Maria Pius Ludwig Stanislaus...
971). Boris II was the eldest surviving son of Emperor Peter IofBulgaria and Maria (renamed Eirene) Lekapena, a granddaughter of Emperor Romanos I Lekapenos...
characterized by the shifting political alliances ofBorisIofBulgaria (ruled 852–889) with the kingdom of the East Franks and with the Byzantine Empire...
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the ruler BorisI (852–889) was using the title knyaz (prince). For much of its later history under the first and second empires, Bulgaria functioned...
I the Great (Church Slavonic: цѣсар҄ь Сѷмеѡ́нъ А҃ Вели́къ, romanized: cěsarĭ Sỳmeonŭ prĭvŭ Velikŭ Bulgarian: цар Симеон I Велики, romanized: Simeon I...
The Golden Age ofBulgaria is the period of the Bulgarian cultural prosperity during the reign of emperor Simeon I the Great (889—927). The term was coined...
goals ofBorisI were scarcely fulfilled. A Greek liturgy offered by a Byzantine clergy furthered neither the cultural development of the Bulgarians, nor...
mother was a Bulgarian woman. Most modern scholars, however, argue that Boris and Gleb had different mothers and were of different ages. Boris, the elder...
Presian, sometimes enumerated as Presian I (Bulgarian: Пресиян, Персиян, Пресиан) was the khan ofBulgaria in 836–852. He ruled during an extensive expansion...
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of two "mirrors of princes", addressed to Boris-Michael ofBulgaria (Epistula 1, ed. Terzaghi) and to Leo VI the Wise (Admonitory Chapters of Basil I)...
Tsardom ofBulgaria (Bulgarian: Царство България, romanized: Tsarstvo Bǎlgariya), also referred to as the Third Bulgarian Tsardom (Bulgarian: Трето Българско...
Patriarch of Constantinople converted Tsar BorisIofBulgaria to Christianity. Boris realized that the Christianization of his subjects by the Byzantine mission...
King Boris III married Princess Giovanna of Savoy. In 1922, Eudoxia and her sister Princess Nadejda became the confidants of King Boris III ofBulgaria. She...
was an Italian princess of the House of Savoy who later became the Tsaritsa ofBulgaria by marriage to Boris III ofBulgaria. Giovanna was born in Rome...
Byzantine court. On their father’s abdication in 969, Boris and Roman returned to Bulgaria, where Boris II succeeded as emperor. Roman may have been proclaimed...
located in a then Bulgarian province known as Kutmichevitsa. It was founded in 886 by Saint Clement of Ohrid on the order ofBorisIofBulgaria simultaneously...
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