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istory of basil 1it is highly iprobable that nstante 7 did not know the respective as of his uncles and therefore had to puzzle the out fro the acrostic bek&labda;a&siga;，as adontz sugststhe acrostic，which is attributed to photi，nsists of the itial letters of the nas basil，eudocia，nstante，leo，alexander and stephen，and any case it al shows that stephen was the younst n of basil 1，and as such he was dested for an elesiastical career a siilar anner roan i had dedicated his fourth and younst n to the churchboth of the ascended the patriar插l throne at the a of sixteen，for stephen aordg to the above aount was born about 871 and beca patriarch deceber 886（cfbelow，p214note 1）gkolias，（886-93），（1953），361，refers to an iabic poe by leo choerosphactes，aordg to which stephen lived&l;&r;it is，however，very doubtful whether one can take this poetic turn of phrase as literally as kolias does，for he supposes that stephen，who died on the 17th or 18th ay 893，was born，by this reckong，a little before or after the 17th or 18th ay 868&r;，that is exactly enty-five years previoly，and is thereby al forced to alter the date of birth of leo 6 and alexander aordgly

[69]evidence of the special position of the bulgarian archbishopric with the byzante church is the high rank aorded the head of the bulgarian church：cfthe cletorologion of philothe（bury，adsyste，p146）and the tact benesevic（&l;ranglisten&r;114 ff）where of all the office-holders both lay and elesiastical the bulgarian archbishop is given t