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The language was standardized for the mission of the two apostles to Great Moravia around 863 (see Glagolitic alphabet for details). For that purpose, Cyril and Methodius first codified Old Church Slavonic from the Slavonic dialect spoken in the Solun ( Thessaloniki) region of the Byzantine Empire.
In the Byzantine Empire an alphabet for the language (Glagolic) was created. The language and the alphabet were taught at the Great Moravian Academy (Velkomoravské ucilište) and were used for government and religious documents and books between 863 and 885Events Vikings besiege Paris Stephen VI elected pope Oldest known mentioning of Baky Births Emperor Daigo of Japan Deaths Pope Adrian III April 6: Saint Methodius, bishop and Bible translator 885. AD. The texts written during this phase contain characteristics of the SlavicThe Slavic peoples are the most numerous ethnic and linguistic body of peoples in Europe. They speak Slavic languages and reside chiefly in the east of that continent, but are also found in Asia east to the Pacific Ocean. Ethno-cultural subdivisions One c vernaculars in Great Moravia.
Students of the two apostles, who were expelled from Great Moravia in 886, brought the Glagolic alphabet and the Old Church Slavic language to BulgariaThe Republic of Bulgaria is a republic in the southeast of Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the east, Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and Montenegro and the Republic of Macedonia to the west, and Romania to the north along the river Danube.. It was taught at two academies in OhridThe Ohrid Literary School was one of the two major medieval Bulgarian cultural centres, along with the Preslav Literary School ( Pliska Literary School). The school was established in Ohrid in 886 by Saint Climent of Ohrid simultaneously or shortly after (in present-day MacedoniaAlexander the Great, king of ancient Macedon, on the waterfront at Thessaloniki, capital of Greek Macedonia Macedonia is a geographical and historical region of the Balkan peninsula in south-eastern Europe with an area of around 67,000 square kilometres a) and Preslav. Shortly afterward the Cyrilic alphabet was created in Bulgaria and substituted the Glagolic. The texts written during this era contain characteristics of the vernacular of Bulgaria. There are some linguistic differences between texts written in the two academies.
Thereupon the language spread to other Eastern European Slavic territories, most notably to Croatia, Serbia, Bohemia, Lesser Poland and Russia. The texts written in each country contain characteristics of the local Slavonic vernacular.
A redaction of Old Church Slavonic, made much later, is known Church Slavonic ( ru: церковнославя́нский язы́к, tserkovnoslavyánskiy yazík), but these terms are often confused. Church Slavonic maintained a prestige status, particularly in Russia, for many centuries — among Slavs in the East it had a status analogous to that of the Latin language in western Europe, but had the advantage of being less divergent from the vernacular tongues of average parishioners. Some Eastern Orthodox churches, such as the Russian and Serbian churches, still use Church Slavonic in their services and chants. Additionally, several Eastern Rite Catholic churches use Church Slavonic.