Kiril Peychinovich
Bulgarian writer and cleric
Kiril Peychinovich or Kiril Pejčinović (Bulgarian: Кирил Пейчинович, Serbian: Кирил Пејчиновић, Macedonian: Кирил Пејчиновиќ, Church Slavonic: Күриллъ Пейчиновићь; c. 1771 – 12 March 1845) was a Bulgarian cleric and writer. He was one of the early figures of the Bulgarian National Awakening.
Life
Peychinovich was born in the large Polog village of Tearce in the Ottoman Empire (present-day North Macedonia) in 1771. He studied in the nearby village of Lešok. Together with his father Peychin and his uncle Dalmant, he went to Mount Athos, at the monastery of Hilandar, where all three became monks. Afterwards, he returned to Tetovo and worked in the Kičevo Monastery. In 1801, he became abbot of Marko's Monastery near Skopje. He had the neglected monastery restored. After visiting his father and uncle in Hilandar, he left the monastery and returned to his native village with the goal to restore the monastery of St. Athanasius in Lešok.
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