Activity in Bulgaria
Around 1371 Evtimiy returned to Bulgaria and founded the Holy Trinity Patriarchal Monastery near Tarnovo, where he grounded the Tarnovo Literary School. He established orthographic rules and corrected the wrongly translated Bulgarian religious books by comparing them to the Greek ones. These corrected texts became models for the Orthodox churches of Bulgaria, Serbia, Romania and Russia using the Church Slavonic language. Gregory Tsamblak, his biographer, compared Evtimiy's work to that of Moses and the Egyptian king Ptolemy I.
In 1375, following the death of Patriarch Ioanikiy (Joanicius), Evtimiy was elected to become his successor. A supporter of asceticism, Evtimiy persecuted the heresies and the moral decay. Evtimiy became famous all around the Orthodox world and a number of metropolitans and hegumens addressed him to interpret theological matters. Of Evtimiy's works, 15 are known: liturgical books, laudatory works, passionals and epistles. Many of his works were likely destroyed or are yet to be discovered. Among his disciples in literary work are Gregory Tsamblak, Metropolitan of Kiev; Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscow; Joasaph of Bdin and Constantine of Kostenets.
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