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Kilifarevo Monastery

c. 1350 · 14th century

Kilifarevo Monastery is a Bulgarian Orthodox monastery near Veliko Tarnovo, founded around 1350 by the Hesychast monk Theodosius of Tarnovo with the support of Tsar Ivan Alexander. It became a major centre of learning and translation where scholars such as Euthymius were trained. Destroyed by the Ottomans, it was rebuilt in the nineteenth century.

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Kilifarevo Monastery. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/kilifarevo-monastery
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