Church-school municipalities in Macedonia – Special church-educational and social institutions, since the time of the creation of the first Christian church municipalities. The Ohrid Archbishopric was preserved their certain church general self-government in the regulation of religious-educators, married-family, property-inheritance, etc. works. With the abolition of the Ohrid Archbishopric (1767) its dioceses and church municipalities fell under the jurisdiction of the Constantinople Patriarchate. Through the municipalities, elinism with worship and teaching in Greek, Greek textbooks, literature and spread of Greek influence and culture in Macedonia was spread. In ⅹⅰⅹ c., With the emergence and strengthening of the revival movement of economically enhanced Macedonian citizenship and intelligence, the process of undertaking the permanent and establishment of new church municipalities in Macedonia started. They began to build churches, monasteries, national municipal schools in which the teaching was conducted in the national spoken Macedonian language and free, and the worship service of Church Slavic language. In this way, they acquired typically Macedonian marks and features. The independent municipalities in the middle of the second sex. on ⅹⅰⅹ c. They took over the overall church-educational and social activity of the hands of the Patriarchate. In the new conditions, the municipalities edited schools, churches, monasteries; They asked teachers and priests, which teaching and worship in an understandable language. The activity of the independent church-school municipalities, especially since the 60s of ⅹⅰⅹ c., Naturally led to the creation of its People’s Church, i.e. The renewal of the Ohrid Archbishopric as a Macedonian National Church. Lit.: A. Trajanovski, church school municipalities in Macedonia, Skopje, 1988. Al. TR.
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