Dionysius of Giannitsa
Dionysius | |
|---|---|
| Personal life | |
| Born | 1831 |
| Died | circa 1909 |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Eastern Orthodoxy |
Dionysius (Αρχιμανδρίτης Διονύσιος, архимандрит Дионисий) was a Bulgarian cleric, an activist of the Bulgarian Revival in South Macedonia.
Biography
Dionysius was born in 1831[1] in Yenice Vardar, then in the Ottoman Empire, today in Greece. He received an enviable education and was ordained a priest by a Greek bishop in 1860. The following year, in 1861, he was ordained as the vicar of the Greek bishop of Voden in Yenice Vardar.[2]
By June 1897, Dionysius had been the vicar of the Greek bishop of Voden in Enidze Vardar for 36 years. At that time, he expressed his desire to enter the service of the Bulgarian Exarchate on the condition that he be appointed chairman of the Enidze Vardar Bulgarian municipality, that he receive a teacher from the municipality as secretary and a Turk as a gavazin. In return, he promised that one of the Greek-speaking priests and his entire parish would join him, and in a short time, all the other patriarchs in the area. In November 1897, he submitted an official application for accession to the Exarchate. Archimandrite Dionysius had great influence among the population of the city and the district, as well as with the local authorities.[3] He served as the chairman of the municipality from (de facto) 1897 to 1903.[4] He successfully counteracted the emerging Serbian propaganda in the city and the Enidzhevardar Serbian Municipality.[5]
By 1906 - 1907, Archimandrite Dionysius was a Bulgarian exarchate priest in Enidzhevardar together with Gono Traev, Mihail Dimitrov, Andon and Stavri.[6]
References
- ↑ By 1907 he was 76 years old, had a son Dimitre (35), and daughters Elena (32), Maria (16), Sofia (14), Urania (12), Vinga (10) and Katerina (6); Bulgarian State Archives, file 246K, op. 9, a.e. 354, p. 2.
- ↑ Христосков, Радослав (2025). Илюстрация от Бѣлото море: Просветно и църковно-национално развитие на Енидже Вардар (1856 – 1912) (in Bulgarian). София: Fiction Fabric. p. 72. ISBN 9786199324547.
- ↑ Лельова, Росица. Българските църковни общини срещу гръцката пропаганда в Македония (1878-1903 г.). Македонски преглед, 2010, кн. 3, стр. 82-83
- ↑ Христосков, Радослав (2025). Илюстрация от Бѣлото море: Просветно и църковно-национално развитие на Енидже Вардар (1856 – 1912) (in Bulgarian). София: Fiction Fabric. p. 126. ISBN 9786199324547.
- ↑ Христосков, Радослав (2025). Илюстрация от Бѣлото море: Просветно и църковно-национално развитие на Енидже Вардар (1856 – 1912) (in Bulgarian). София: Fiction Fabric. pp. 84–85. ISBN 9786199324547.
- ↑ Христосков, Радослав (2021). "Социодемографски и антропонимни особености на българското екзархийско население. Православните българи в Енидже Вардар през 1906 - 1907 година според преброяването на Българската екзархия". „Македонски преглед“ (in Bulgarian). XLІV (4). София: МНИ: 137–152.