Religious movements in Macedonia (. Movements that always, in addition to the confessional, also existed political, social, cultural and national programs. Bogomilism appeared in the first half of ⅹ c. As a religious against the church, and turned into a social movement of the public masses for the opposition and the ruling class in the country. The revival movement began after the abolition of the Ohrid Archbishopric (1767), passing through several stages, involving the shift from church to secular goals. Initially, the movement sets out the request for Macedonian clergy, liturgy and education in the spoken language. For this purpose, cellary and folk schools were organized, established by the ecclesiastical municipalities – with teaching (church and secular) of local dialects. In the fierce clash of the Macedonian ecclesiastical municipalities With the Constantinople Patriarchate, later with the Bulgarian Exarchate, canonical Questions are giving you the place of national. The revival movement played a major role in awakening and formation of the Macedonian national identity. The Union movement in Macedonia appeared in the middle of ⅹⅰⅹ c. Encouraged by the Encyclical to the Eastern peoples of Pope IX, in which all Orthodox peoples were invited to spend in a union with the Roman Church, with the retention of the Orthodox rite and the indigenous clergy, as well as the non-interference of the Catholic Clare. The movement took a stronger swing in the dioceses in the southern part of Macedonia that were exposed to the pressure of Greek propaganda, especially in the Cupushko-Polyanian diocese. Before the end of 1873 and early 1874 Six Macedonian church municipalities (Thessaloniki, Vodina, Kukuška, Dojran, Strumica and Maleshevo) have decided for acceptance of the Union. The process of recognition of the autocephaly of the Macedonian Orthodox Church is underway, and again there is the prevalence of the political interests of the wider space in the Balkans before the canonical. Lit.: Blaze Koneski, towards the Macedonian Renaissance, Skopje, 1959; Slavko Dimevski, history of the Macedonian Orthodox Church, Skopje, 1989; Slavko Dimevski, Kukushka Union from 1859, “Inteller of Ini”, Skopje, 1960; Ristovski, Union in Macedonia (I-IV), “Previews”, ⅱ (third series), 9, Skopje, 1960, 908-936; Ⅱ, 10, 1005-1029; Ⅲ (third series), 1, 1960, 72-90 and ⅲ, 2, 158-189; It, portraits and processes from Macedonian literary and national history, and Skopje, 1989; Mihailo Minoski, the Union and Protestant in the Vardar region with a special emphasis on the Dojran-Gevgelija End to the Balkan Wars, Gevgelija, 1987; Cane Mujanovski, autocephaly of the Macedonian Orthodox Church (documents), Skopje, 2004. M. Tash.
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