Gregory Tsamblak

Gregory Tsamblak

Gregory Tsamblak ( _bg. Григорий Цамблак) (c.1365-1420) was a Bulgarian writer and cleric, metropolitan of Kiev between 1413 and 1420. He was born in the capital of the Bulgarian Empire Tarnovo in a rich family. Tsamblak was a disciple of the prominent Bulgarian hesychast, writer and patriarch Evtimiy of Tarnovo. After the fall of Bulgaria under Ottoman domination following the Bulgarian-Ottoman Wars he emigrated first to Constantinople and then became presbyter of the Church of Wallachia and Moldova until finally becoming metropolitan of Kiev.


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