Who was Gorazd?

Answer 1

There are 3 historically significant namesakes that I know of: - 1st and foremost Gorazd, Prince/Duke of Carantania (ruled 749-751), mentioned in "Conversio Bagoariorum et Carantanorum" (Conversion of the Bavarians and Carantanians). He became a christian (on a specific request of his father P./D. of C. Borut) while he was a bavarian garantee-hostage. But than did not rule long enough to start the conversion of his pagan subjects. The word "gorazd" is a derivative of gothic "*garazds" with a meaning of someone who is either loquacious or/and deft (in the meaning of both speed and handling). - 2nd is saint Gorazd, successor of proslavic (in the sense of the use of language at god worshiping activities) st. Methodious, but not recognized as a bishop by prolatin pope Stephen V. (see also: http://www.omda.bg/ENGL/history/sedmotch.html) - 3rd is a a lot later bishop: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorazd_(Pavlik)_of_Prague Answered by Gorazd, student of History, sLOVEnia