Anthim I

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Anthim I
Bulgarian Exarch
Antim I (1816-1888).jpg
Church Bulgarian Orthodox Church (Bulgarian Exarchate)
See Constantinople
Installed16 February 1872
Term ended14 April 1877
Predecessor Ilarion of Bulgaria
Successor Joseph I of Bulgaria
Personal details
Born
Atanas Mihaylov Chalakov

1816
DiedDecember 1, 1888 (aged 72)
Vidin, Bulgaria
Buried Vidin
Nationality Bulgarian
Denomination Eastern Orthodox Church
Residence Constantinople, Ottoman Empire

Anthim I (Bulgarian : Антим I, secular name Atanas Mihaylov Chalakov, Bulgarian : Aтанас Михайлов Чалъков; 1816 – 1 December 1888) was a Bulgarian education figure and clergyman, and a participant in the Bulgarian liberation and church-independence movement. [1] He was the first head of the Bulgarian Exarchate, a post he held from 1872 to 1877. He was also the first Chairman of the National Assembly of Bulgaria, presiding the Constituent Assembly and the 1st Grand National Assembly in 1879. [2]

Anthim I was born in Kırk Kilise (Lozengrad) in Eastern Thrace (today Kırklareli, Turkey) and became a monk in the Hilendar monastery on Mount Athos. [3]

He studied in the Halki seminary (on the Princes' Islands near Constantinople), in Odessa as well as in Russia. He graduated from the Moscow Theological Academy (in Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra) in 1856. He was ordained hieromonk by Metropolitan of Moscow Philaret Drozdov.

He was Archbishop of Preslav (from 1861) and then of Vidin (from 1868). [4]

After he unilaterally declared an independent national church of the Bulgarians on May 11, 1872, he was defrocked by the Patriarchal Synod, under whose canonical jurisdiction he had been consecrated bishop. The condemnation was later affirmed at the Council in Constantinople in September the same year. [5]

He died in Vidin in 1888 and his mausoleum can be found in the yard of the Vidin Archbishopric.

Honour

Antim Peak in Imeon Range on Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named for Antim I.

Notes

  1. Detrez, Raymond (2006). "ANTIM I (1816-1888)". Historical Dictionary of Bulgaria (2nd ed.). Lanham, Maryland; Toronto; Oxford: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. pp. 13–14.
  2. Black, Cyril E. (1943). The Establishment of Constitutional Government in Bulgaria. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. p.  79 . Retrieved 21 June 2021 via Internet Archive .
  3. MacDermott, Mercia (1962). A History of Bulgaria 1395–1885 . New York: Frederick A. Praeger. p.  166 . Retrieved 21 June 2021 via Internet Archive.
  4. Buchan, John, ed. (1924). "Bulgaria". Bulgaria and Romania: The Nations of Today; A New History of the World. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. p.  33 . Retrieved 20 June 2021 via Internet Archive.
  5. Bourchier, James David (1911). "Bulgaria/History"  . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 779–784.

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