Petyr Bogdan
The Bulgarian coat of arms according to Petyr Bogdan Bakheev
Petyr Bogdan Bakszew (Bulgarian Петър Богдан Бакшев) - Bulgarian archbishop and scholar. The author of "The History of Bulgaria". One of the initiators of the uprising in Cziprów. Curriculum vitae
He was born in 1601 in Cziprovci. In the years 1620-1623 he studied in the monastery of St. Francis in Ancona and in the years 1623-1630 he studied law at the University of Rome. In 1640 he prepared a report for the Pope about the state of the Bulgarian lands. In 1643 he was appointed Pope Urban VIII to the Archbishop of Sofia and became the head of Bulgarian Catholics. In the middle of the seventeenth century, the idea of Catholic faith was gradually introduced in the middle of the 17th century, to be applied to the Bulgarian national idea, counting on the possibility of the Catholic West and transforming it into a national institution based on the newly formed Bulgarian state. Bakshev visited many rulers of the Central European countries to encourage them against the Turks and to invade the Ottoman Empire, which would lead to the liberation of Bulgaria. He wrote in Latin the first historiographical work on the history of Bulgaria. He died in the first days of September 1674. He was buried in the altar, in the church built and consecrated by him. Maria in Cziprowa. Bibliography
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