From episcopate to an autonomous Patriarchate of the First Bulgarian Empire in Drastar (Silistra): The history of the Patriarchal Complex. Author: Georgi Atanasov. Language: Bulgarian with an extended summary in English

Table of contents

Instead of introduction: The early Christian Durostorum-Dorostol

Chapter I. The establishment of the early medieval Bulgarian Episcopal Chair in Drastar

Chapter II. The Episcopal centre in Drastar

1. The cathedral Episcopal church in Drastar — church №5

2. The royal Episcopal basilica — church №2

Chapter III. From the Episcopate to the Patriarchate

Chapter IV. The Patriarchal complex in Drastar

1. The Patriarchal cathedral — church №4

2. The royal Patriarchal church №2a

3. The residence of the Drastar patriarchs

Chapter V. Drastar as a religious centre after 971: From Patriarchate to Episcopate and Diocese

1. Moving the patriarchal throne from Drastar to the South-Western Bulgarian lands in 971

2. The fate of Dorostol eparchy between 871 and 1020

3. The Drastar episcopacy in the boundaries of the autocephalous Ochrid archdiocese

4. The Dorostol metropolitan church from the second half of the 11th to the end of the 12th c.

Chapter VI. The fate of the patriarchal architectural complex at the end of 10th and 11th century

1. Church №4

2. Episcopal royal and cathedral church №2a

3. The residence west of church №2 after the end of 10th c.

Instead of conclusion: The Drastar Patriarchate from 927, the Preslav Patriarch from 913 (?) and the Tarnovo Patriarchate from 1235 — similarities and differences