Saint
Constantine of Preslav
Bishop of Preslav
Scholar and bishop of Preslav in Bulgaria, a disciple of Saint Methodius.
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- Era
- 10th century
- Place
- Veliki Preslav
- Order
- Hierarchs
Life
Constantine of Preslav was a Bulgarian scholar, writer and translator, one of the foremost men of letters of the Preslav Literary School at the end of the 9th and the beginning of the 10th century. He is believed to have been a disciple of Saint Methodius. After Methodius reposed in 885, he was jailed by the German clergy in Great Moravia and sold as a slave in Venice. He escaped to Constantinople and around 886 moved to Bulgaria.
His most important work is the Didactic Gospel, from about 893 or 894, the first systematic collection of sermons in Slavic literature; its preface, the Alphabet Prayer, is the first original poem in Old Bulgarian. The record calls him bishop of Preslav. The sources consulted give no act of canonization and no date of death.