Demetrius of Bulgaria
Patriarch of Bulgaria in 927–c. 930
d. 10th century
4th Archbishop of Ohrid (Bulgarian line)
Offices
Demetrius was the second Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and the first one to have been recognized by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople as a result of the Byzantine–Bulgarian Treaty of 927, which affirmed the Bulgarian victory in the War of 913–927 against the Byzantine Empire. Demetrius headed the Bulgarian Patriarchate in the first years of the reign of emperor Peter I.
Related people
- Sergius of Bulgaria preceded · inferred
Places
- Veliki Preslav death
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.