Talk:Petar Bogdan

Albanian person of same name

It is strange that there is an Albanian writer named Pjetër Bogdani. He too was a Catholic bishop and was the first to write prose in Albanian and also led a rebellion, but in Kosovo. How strange! Anyways, I put a "not to be confused with" thing on both articles.--Gaius Claudius Nero (talk) 18:08, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Pjetër Bogdani is said to have received his initial schooling from the Franciscans at Chiprovtsi, where Petar Bogdan was born and died at the same time - Pjetër Bogdani (ca. 1630 - 1689), Petar Bogdan (Chiprovtsi, 1601 – Chiprovtsi, 1674). In his works Petar Bogdan described also Albanian Catholic comunity had lived then near Chiprovtsi, in Kopilovtsi. They were almost bulgarized, but still spoke Albanian. Jingby (talk) 18:58, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

interesting coincidence but i don't find it particularly strange. peter is, as you know, a pretty common christian name and bog-dan (slavic for "gift of god", probably a calque on Greek theo-doros) an uncommon enough but not completely unheard of surname among all balkanians including non-slavs. regards87.202.34.224 (talk) 02:16, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Indeed. There is an Albanian football player who's last name is Bogdani. I think it is also used among the Romanians.--Gaius Claudius Nero (talk) 00:50, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Roman or Eastern Catholic?

As "In 1642 Pope Urban II declared Sofia to be the seat of the Bulgaria's Catholic Archbishopric and appointed Peter Bogdan Bakshev as the Archbishop", I have added "Roman Catholic" and a link to Roman Catholicism in Bulgaria in the lead paragraph. However, that article does say that the diocese of Sofia follows the Eastern Rite, in current times at any rate. I don't fully understand the distinction between Roman and Eastern Catholic, so please correct me if I'm wrong. – Fayenatic London 17:37, 30 November 2014 (UTC)

• I'm not 100% sure either, but the term Eparchy strongly suggests Eastern Catholic (i.e. using ancient Greek language in mass) rather than Roman Catholic (i.e. using Latin language in mass, at least up to the 20th century). Marcocapelle (talk) 22:44, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
  • Among the ethnic Bulgarians, there is an Eastern Orthodox majority (who use Bulgarian language and not Greek in their church service ever since the 9th century), a Muslim minority, a Roman Catholic minority, and a Christian Protestant minority. Peter Bogdan Bakshev belonged to the Roman Catholic minority. Apcbg (talk)
    • It seems like you have forgotten about the Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church which is the church we are discussing right now. Marcocapelle (talk) 22:42, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
      • It seems that you have not read the second paragraph of Roman Catholicism in Bulgaria. The Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church is Eastern Catholic, but Bulgaria also has Latin rite Roman Catholics. – Fayenatic London 23:22, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
        • Of course! But Apcbg was mentioning that already, there was no need to repeat that. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:06, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

I am not an expert on the subject, but fact is Chiprovtsi was a prominent centre of Roman Catholicism (Latin (Western) Right as opposed to Eastern Right Catholicism) in Bulgaria. There is a pretty good article on en-wiki on Chiprovtsi. It might prove useful in settling the issue.--Laveol ^T 23:47, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

• So it's a trade-off between this on the one hand and the fact that in the article text the Eastern term 'Eparchy' is being used on the other hand. I would say, let's keep things undecided, and thus not link to Roman Catholicism in Bulgaria in the lead paragraph and not categorize to Roman Catholic bishops. Better providing too little information than possibly providing wrong information. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:06, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
  • I found the solution, Peter Bogdan must have been Roman Catholic after all. According to Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church, the Eastern Catholic eparchy was established no earlier than in 19th century while Petar Bogdan lived much earlier. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:02, 4 December 2014 (UTC)