Theodosius of Sinai

Teodosius of Sinai
Born	? Dojran, Ottoman Empire
Died	March 1843 Dojran, Ottoman Empire
Other names	Teohar

Theodosius of Sinai (error: {{lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help)) was a Bulgarian priest, writer and printer. He founded the first Bulgarian printing-house in Thesaloniki. Theodosius of Sinai is considered a Macedonian in the Republic of Macedonia.

Teodosius was born in the late 18th century in the town of Dojran, Ottoman Empire (today in the Republic of Macedonia). His birth name was Teohar (Bulgarian: Теохар). After he had finished Greek (language) school in Istanbul, Teohar went back to Dojran, where he got married and was later ordained a priest. The death of his wife however drove him into a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. In 1828 Teohar became a monk in Saint Catherine's Monastery and there he adopted the monastic name Teodosiues (Theodosiy in Bulgarian).

After returning to the Balkans, Theodosius was appointed a priest in "St. Minas" church in Solun (Thesaloniki) in 1831. While in Solun, he established the firsts printing house in Bulgarian (language) in 1838. Theodosius used the movable type printing press of Daskal Kamche from Vatasha. The moveable types of the press were crafted by a Russian immigrant type-founder. The first books, typed in Teodosius's printing house, were "Primary study through Slavonic-Bulgarian and Greek Orthodox morning prayers" („Началное учение с молитви утренния славяноболгарский и греческия“) and "Jewish ceremony and all of the harms, they've done" - an anti-Semitic lampoon, which was initially translated "to simple and plain Bulgarian language" by Nathanael Ohridski. In 1839 Teodosius typed his own "A Brief description of twenty monasteries that are situated in the Holly Mount Athos".

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