The Kukushka Union and Union in Macedonia – an attempt by the Dojran-Kukushka Diocese in 1859. With an agreement for the Union with the Catholic Church, by retaining the Slavic language in churches and the people in schools and by preserving the eastern rite and folk customs, to reject the power of the Constantinople Patriarchate and through the auspices of Rome to organize religious-cultural autonomy with its own union Bishop in the diocese in all of Macedonia and political patronage from Western countries. After long and complex talks and negotiations, the Kuku sent a reasoned letter to Pope Drive XI (July 1859) for accepting the Union. With pressure from Russia and Bulgarian church circles, the Patriarchate fulfills the will of Kukus citizens to give their own government and 29. ⅹ 1859. The redness of the bishop of Partenia Zografski is carried out, which is then sent for Dojran-Kukhiki Metropolitan. With that, the Kukushus Union is temporarily muffled. After reading the Bulgarian Exarchate, as the only Slavic-Orthodox Church in Turkey (1870), which prevents the renewal of the Ohrid Archbishopric, a new movement and against the new church, because with the inclusion of the Veles Diocese of the Diocese, all other dioceses, all other dioceses They remained under the jurisdiction of the Patriarchate (with the possibility of a referendum statement). When in the church council in Constantinople, the share of Macedonian delegates in the constitution of the new church and in the election of its head (1872) is welcomed by resistance, six Macedonian church municipalities from southern Macedonia entering new negotiations with Rome and massively imburses the new and massive union religious religious – National movement (1873-1874) with an open request for its original hierarchy and for renewal of the Ohrid Archbishopric as a Union Church. The movement receives the expressive national-political character, sets up for resolving the already “Macedonian issue” and covers all of Macedonia. For their own reasons, this movement also supports the new Thessaloniki Valia Mithat Pasha and the center become Thessaloniki and Kukush, to which other cities are connected. The head of the Patriarchate Berovski (Russian Education and Belgrade Legionnaire) Dimitar Zergejiev-Berovski is stopped. Russian diplomacy is hired, and Exarch Antim sends the most authoritative Bulgarian national Dentech Petko Slavajkov to Thessaloniki to stifle the great rebel antiegosarchy wave. Macedonians make an unsuccessful attempt to negotiate with the Anglican Church (16. and 1874). Breaks the reflective uprising under the leadership of D. Berovski (1876), and with the inclusion of corrupt Turkish authorities, is gradually suppressed this second union in Macedonia. But immediately after the arrival of the Exarchian Bishop Theodosia Gologanov in Skopje (March 1890), he makes fundamental preparations for rejection of the Exarchate and proclaiming Macedonian church self-government. After the reaction of the Bulgarian Exarch, Metropolitan Theodija initiates negotiations with the Papal Nunzi in Constantinople in order to be able to renew the Ohrid Archbishopric through the Union with Rome. In a letter (22. 1891) in six points explains the National Program and emphasizes: “We Macedonians do not have such a trouble of the Turks as far as the Greeks, Bulgarians, and Serbs who as the eagles of carcass ventured into this Highland country and want to decay. ” In the letter to Pope Leon ⅹⅰⅰⅰ (4 1891) Pray with the renewal of the Ohrid Archbishopric of the Holy Father, the entire Macedonian pastures under his own patronage. However, at the time of the outbreak of the Line Movement, the Exarchate proclaimed theodosia as a Macedonian national separatist (January 1892) and through the Turkish authorities, it manages to bring it to Constantinople and to take away the Metropolitan title (March 1892), after which it directs In a Bulgarian monastery. Thus, the third union in Macedonia is also so. They were then made, but not only small village union oases in southeastern Macedonia remained. Lit.: Blaze Ristovski, Union in Macedonia, I-IV, “Problems”, ⅱ, 9, May 1960, 908-936; Ⅱ, 10, June 1960, 1005-1029; Ⅲ, 1, September 1960, 72-90 and ⅲ, 2, October 1960, 158-189; It, portraits and processes of Macedonian literary and national history, ⅲ, Skopje, 1990, 29-65; Slavko Dimevski, the Kukushka Union of 1859, “Inteller of Ini”, ⅲ, 2, 1960; The same, Metropolitan Skopje Theodosius. Life and activity, Skopje, 1960; Cyril Stojanov, the Caully-Legal Development Catholic Churches The Bizutal-Slavench rite of Macedonia, Zagreb, 1990. BL. R. Feudal Tower in Skopje
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