Seven Apostles of Bulgaria explained

Seven Apostles of Bulgaria
Titles:	Equal-to-the-Apostles, Venerable
Feast Day:	27 July
Honored In:	Eastern Orthodox Church

The Seven Apostles (bg|Свети Седмочисленици , Sveti Sedmochislenitsi) are seven saints venerated in the Bulgarian Orthodox Church since the 10th century.^[1]

They are also revered in other Churches as the creators and distributors of the Glagolitic and Cyrillic scripts. These saints are Saint Cyril and Methodius who created the Glagolitic script, and their five students, Clement of Ohrid, Naum, Angelar and Sava.^[2] Although Constantine of Preslav is considered a direct disciple of Methodius, the Church traditionally does not include him because he is not canonized. ^[3]

In the Russian Orthodox Church, Cyril and Methodius are remembered separately, and their disciples are recognized with the title of Equal-to-the-apostles. The Bulgarian Orthodox Church has set July 27 as the day of the repose of Clement of Ohrid and the feast day of the Seven Apostles.^[4]

See also

• Pliska Literary School
• Ohrid Literary School

Footnotes

1. David Farmer, The Oxford Dictionary of Saints, Fifth Edition Revised, OUP Oxford, 2011,, p. 94.
2. Alban Butler, Lives of the Saints: Edited, Rev, Volume 3, Herbert Thurston as ed., Burns & Oates, 1956, p. 130.
3. Web site: Свети Седмочисленици. 31 October 2019.
4. Matthew Bunson et al., Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, Our Sunday Visitor, 1998,, p. 551.