Saints Cyril and Methodius (Greek: Κύριλλος καὶ Μεθόδιος Old Church Slavonic: Кѷриллъ и Меѳодїи) were 9th-century Byzantine Greek brothers born in Thessalonica Greek Macedonia in the Byzantine Empire. They were the principal Christian missionaries among the Slavic peoples of the Great Moravia and Pannonia introducing Orthodox Christianity and writing to the hitherto illiterate pagan Slav migrants into parts of Macedonia and elsewhere in the Balkans.
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birth place
Thessaloniki, Byzantine Empire
death date
0869-02-14
title
Bishops and Confessors; Equals to the Apostles; Patrons of Europe; Apostles to the Slavs
venerated in
Anglican Communion, Eastern Orthodox Church, Lutheranism, Catholic Church
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