METOD, ARCIBISKUP „CIRKVI MORAVSKEJ“ A (VEĽKO)MORAVSKÝ KATEDRÁLNY CHRÁM

• Authors: Botek Andrej

Title variants

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Method, Archbishop of the „Moravian Church“ and the (Great)Moravian Cathedral

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

In June 879 Pope John VIII. summoned Method from Great Moravia to Rome concerning to complaints from the Bavarian clergy. He named Methodius as an „Archbishop of the holy Pannonian Church“ in his letter. Method came to Rome in the official embassy with the nobleman Zemežízeň. The subsequent events in 880 in Rome were in many ways ground breaking for the ecclesiastical and political development in Great Moravia as well. Pope informed Svätopluk in the bull Industriae tuae that he is taking his empire under Roman patronage, what meant an immense strengthening in international relations and de facto acknowledgement its independence. At the same time, Method defended himself in all points. Pope confirmed his orthodoxy, allowed the Slavonic liturgy and for the first time named Method as “Archbishop of the holy Moravian Church”. He announced to Svätopluk, that Wiching was consecrated for the “holy Nitra Church” as the sufragan of Method. By this act an independent Great Moravian archdiocese was established in ecclesiastical law with its solid structures. The article deals with the circumstances that led to a change in the perspective of papal policy. It is also devoted to the issue of the location of the Methods cathedral. Not only analyses of hitherto known findings of Great Moravian churches are used, but also a description of the burial place of Archbishop Method, who was buried in his main temple.

Keywords

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GREAT MORAVIA; ARCHBISHOP METHOD; MORAVIAN CHURCH; CATHEDRAL; METHODS GRAVE; SLAVONIC LITURGY

• Publisher: Jan Stanislav Slavonic Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Matica Slovenska
• Journal: Slavica Slovaca
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 56
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 191 - 204

Contributors

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Botek Andrej

• Fakulta architektúry a dizajnu STU, Ústav dejín a teórie architektúry a obnovy pamiatok, Nám. slobody 19, 812 45 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/SlavSlov.2021.2.4