Újabb adalékok Metódnak és tanítványainak pannóniai tevékenységéhez
Additions to Methodius’ Activity in Pannonia

Summary/Abstract: The subject of our paper is the activity of Methodius, archbishop of Sirmium and bishop of Pannonia. Using available information we make an attempt to put forward a working hy-pothesis which enables us to describe the bishop’s activity here. We relied on sources re-lated to Pannonia from ecclesiastical history, history, archeology and literary history. When assessing them, we drew primarily upon the results of Hungarian scholars, occa-sionally taking into account the findings of foreign, mainly Slovenian researchers. We be-gin with the appearance of Avar and Slav tribes. We outline, as the consequences of the Frank-Avar wars, the missionary activity by the Bishopric of Salzburg and the Archbishop-ric on the territory that was under the government and in the possession of Pribina and Kocel. Using the Conversio Bagoariorum et Carantanorum, we attempt to identify those churches which could have provided the settings for Methodius’ activity. We make an at-tempt to enumerate the written sources used in Pannonia (the Freising fragments, the anonymous speech from the Kloz collection), to prove that the Freising fragments were in-deed used in Pannonia, and to localize the second part of the Kiev fragment (V. Vondrák). We touch upon the Bulgarian relations of Pribina and we try to date the stamp, with Greek writing, of the Bulgarian Archbishop Georgios. We explore that possibility, briefly outlined in the Legenda of Methodius, as well as those two papal bulls, which suggest that the Pope meant to send Methodius, after his release from Frank captivity, to Pannonia again. Even though our data led to hypothetical statements, it is probable that Methodius’ activity in Pannonia was not a mere episode in the bishop’s life but rather marks the beginning of an active period. Our paper makes an attempt to support such an interpretation.

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