Sophronius of Vratsa

Died in 1813

Stoiko Vladislavov was born in 1739 in Kotel, into a family of cattle merchants, and lost his parents early. A pupil at the monastic school of his town, he was ordained priest in 1762 and in 1765 copied the Slavo-Bulgarian History that Paisius of Hilendar showed him. Consecrated bishop of Vratsa in 1794 under the name Sophronius, he was held at Vidin by Osman Pazvantoglu, then made his way to Bucharest, from where he had his Nedelnik printed in 1806 and represented the Bulgarians before the Russian command. He died near Bucharest in 1813 and was canonized in 1964.

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