Kliment of Ohrid

   Missionary to the Slavs (q.v.), Bulgarian priest, teacher, writer, saint. He was a companion to Naum of Ohrid (q.v.) and a disciple of Cyril and Methodios (qq.v.), whom he accompanied to Moravia (q.v.) in 863. In 886 he was sent by Boris I to Macedonia (qq.v.), first to the region of Devol (q.v.), then (after 893) to Ohrid (q.v.), which soon became a center of Slavonic culture. He wrote numerous homilies, and quite likely authored the vitae (q.v.) of Cyril and Methodios. He may also have invented the Cyrillic (q.v.) alphabet, which soon competed with Glagolitic (q.v.).