Химнографската прослава на св. Климент Охридски от X век до днес
Hymnographic Celebration of St. Clement of Ohrid Since 10th Century to this Date

Author(s): Iskra Hristova-Shomova
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Кирило-Методиевски научен център при Българска академия на науките
Summary/Abstract: St. Clement of Ohrid is perhaps one of the few Slavic saints for whom an impressive number of hymnographic works have been composed and preserved through the centuries, both in Slavonic and in Greek. These works became a part of different liturgical services. The earliest office dedicated to St. Clement was written in the tenth-century Bulgaria in Old Church Slavonic. Later, numerous hymnographic works were compiled in Greek, but only part of them survived: Seven canons and various short hymnographic texts, such as stichera and troparia. Some of these Greek texts were translated into Old Church Slavonic, and subsequently a large part of them were rendered into Church Slavonic. The Church Slavonic office for St. Clement of Ohrid, currently used in Bulgaria, is a combination of Old Bulgarian and Greek texts, rendered into Church Slavonic. The history of the cult of St. Clement of Ohrid could be traced through the hymnographic texts dedicated to him. Initially, it was a local cult in Ohrid and its vicinities, which gradually broadened its popularity, especially after Demetrios Chomatenos (d.ca.1236) wrote a cycle of eight canons, each for the eight voices scale of the octoechos. The centres of Clement’s cult were mainly the region of Ohrid and Mount Athos, where both the Greek monastic establishments and the Bulgarian monastery Zograph celebrated the saint. After the Liberation of Bulgaria in 1878, the cult of St. Clement became particularly strong in Sofia, where the new Church Slavonic office was composed and was further disseminated in Russia.

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