predecessor successor religion title denomination term article_title name occupation
pavle avakumović josif putnik eastern orthodoxy bishop of pakrac serbian orthodox church 1786-1807 kiril Živković
 kiril Živković monk , bishop , writer
kiril Živković

kiril Živković also spelled kiril zhivkovich -lrb- , ; 1730 -- 1807 -rrb- was a bulgarian and serbian writer and orthodox bishop .
according to kyril himself , he was born '' `` in the city of pirot , in bulgarian lands , in the year 1730 '' '' .
pirot at the time was part of the sanjak of niš of the ottoman empire -lrb- now in serbia -rrb- .
as a seven-year-old , he fled with his parents to the village of futog in bačka in the habsburg empire -lrb- now in serbia -rrb- , where he was ordained as the priest of the serbian orthodox church .
afterwards zhivkovich became a monk at the bulgarian orthodox zograf monastery on mount athos .
he travelled and studied throughout the balkans , russia , and italy .
in 1778 he was elevated to the rank of abbot -lrb- archimandrite -rrb- by metropolitan vikentije jovanović-vidak .
that same year he was put in charge of grgeteg monastery .
eight years later , on the 20th of june 1786 , metropolitan mojsije putnik of sremski karlovci made him bishop of the serbian orthodox pakrac eparchy , a position he would hold from 1786 to 1807 .
he published two books : in vienna in 1794 : `` domentijan '' and `` the lives of serbian saints and enlighteners simeon and sava '' , and a redaction of peter damascene writings in buda in 1803 .
he also left behind several unpublished manuscripts .
most prominent from his unpublished writings is the manuscript from temska monastery .
this manuscript is an important document in that it renders the state of the little documented torlakian dialects from 1764 written , according to the author , in '' `` simple bulgarian language '' '' .
he died on 12 august 1807 in the monastery of st. george in temska near pirot .
