The Glagolitic alphabet is believed to have been created by Saints Cyril and Methodius, while the Cyrillic alphabet was invented by the Bulgarian scholar Clement of Ohrid, who was their disciple.

After the war, he played piano and guitar ( his first guitar was built by friend and author Sydney Hopkins, who wrote Mister God, This Is Anna ), and in 1949 joined Chris Barber's Jazz Band where he met blues harmonica player Cyril Davies.

It was used by Saints Cyril and Methodius and their disciples to translate the Bible and other liturgical literature from Greek into Slavic.

In 886 AD, the Bulgarian Empire introduced the Glagolitic alphabet which was devised by the Saints Cyril and Methodius in the 850s.

Writing in 1947, Cyril Garbett comments :" The House of Commons was within its constitutional rights in rejecting in a few hours the work of many anxious years.

Cyril Northcote Parkinson ( 30 July 1909 – 9 March 1993 ) was a British naval historian and author of some sixty books, the most famous of which was his bestseller Parkinson's Law, which led him to be also considered as an important scholar within the field of public administration.

* Cyril Leo Heraclius, Prince Toumanoff ( born Toumanishvili ) ( 1913 – 1997 ), Russian-born historian and genealogist who was a Professor Emeritus at Georgetown University

* Saint Cyril the Philosopher, whose original name was Constantine

The formal definition of ' two natures ' in Christ was understood by the critics of the council at the time, and is understood by many historians and theologians today, to side with western and Antiochene Christology and to diverge from the teaching of Cyril of Alexandria, who always stressed that Christ is ' one '.

" However, during the reading of Leo's Tome, three passages were challenged as being potentially Nestorian, and their orthodoxy was defended by using the writings of Cyril.

The committee unanimously decided in favor of the orthodoxy of Leo, determining that what he said was compatible with the teaching of Cyril.

A number of other bishops also entered statements to the effect that they believed that Leo's Tome was not in contradiction with the teaching of Cyril as well.

Cyril of Alexandria ( c. 376 – 444 ) was the Patriarch of Alexandria from 412 to 444.

Cyril wrote extensively and was a leading protagonist in the Christological controversies of the later 4th and 5th centuries.

His mother remained close to her brother and under his guidance, Cyril was well educated.

Theophilus died on 15 October 412, and Cyril was made Pope or Patriarch of Alexandria on 18 October 412, against the party favouring Archdeacon Timothy.

On one occasion, Cyril sent the grammaticus Hierax to secretly discover the content of an edict that Orestes was to promulgate on the mimes shows, which attracted great crowds.

When the Jews, with whom Cyril had clashed before, discovered the presence of Hierax, they rioted, complaining that Hierax's presence was aimed at provoking them.

This order had two aims: the first was to quell the riot, the other to mark Orestes ' authority over Cyril.

Orestes was powerless, but nonetheless rejected Cyril's gesture of offering him a Bible, which would mean that the religious authority of Cyril would require Orestes ' acquiescence in the bishop's policy.

However, the Christian population of Alexandria knew that Ammonius had been killed for his assault and not for his faith, and Cyril was obliged to remain silent about the events.

According to lexicographer William Smith, " She was accused of too much familiarity with Orestes, prefect of Alexandria, and the charge spread among the clergy, who took up the notion that she interrupted the friendship of Orestes with their archbishop, Cyril.

Cyril gained an opportunity to restore Alexandria's pre-eminence over both Antioch and Constantinople when an Antiochine priest who was in Constantinople at Nestorius ' behest began to preach against calling Mary the " Mother of God ".

Pope Cyril IV established very friendly relations with other denominations, to the extent that when the Greek Patriarch in Egypt had to absent himself for a long period of time outside the country, he left his Church under the guidance of the Coptic Patriarch.

The account of the labors of Saints Cyril and Methodius among the Slavic peoples is also very interesting, and to Nestor we owe the tale of the summary way in which Vladimir the Great suppressed the worship of Perun and other traditional gods at Kiev.

Though an outstanding student, Bowra was very sociable, and his circle as an undergraduate included Cyril Radcliffe ( with whom he shared lodgings ), Roy Harrod, Robert Boothby, L. P. Hartley, Lord David Cecil, J.

Although Roman Catholic canonists admit that theological errors, and in the case of Theodore very serious ones, can be found in the writings, the mistakes of Theodoret and Ibas were chiefly but not wholly due to a misunderstanding of the language of Cyril of Alexandria.

The format was very similar, although well-loved comedian Cyril Fletcher replaced announcer Ronald Fletcher to read out amusing misprints.

I know Cyril is very good at business, but I really wish he would put all his money in a trust and step up for a higher and more senior position ".

In Cyril Walters and the Nawab of Pataudi the team acquired its first class batsmen since the Fosters, but both had to give up the game after playing brilliantly in 1933 – when the bowling was briefly very weak.

As Cyril Connolly summarised of the first ( 1973 ) edition: " I'm very much afraid he will prove indispensable!

The Western sidereal astrologer, Cyril Fagan, has speculated that the planets all rose heliacally at these degrees in the year of the erection of an important temple to the Babylonian god Nabu in the year 786 BC, but this is still very speculative.

As a very private firm, the size of Kleinworts was not well known in the City and so the hints dropped by Cyril to Mark Turner were enthusiastically taken up.

He is placed by some writers as early as the 4th century ; but it is plain from his own work that he did not write till the very end of the 5th or the beginning of the 6th, as he refers not only to Patriarch Cyril of Alexandria, who died 444, but also to Petrus archiater, who could be identified with the physician of Theodoric the Great, whom he defines a contemporary.

Cyril died about 444, but the controversies were to continue for decades, from the " Robber Synod " of Ephesus ( 449 ) to the Council of Chalcedon ( 451 ) and beyond.

St. Cyril was ordained a deacon by Bishop St. Macarius of Jerusalem in about 335 and a priest some eight years later by Bishop St. Maximus.

Most accounts of Cyril place him in better light like Theodoret of Cyrrhus who referred to Cyril as “ an earnest champion of the apostolic decrees of Nicaea and says nothing about Arian conspiracy to make him Maximus successor ”.

Cyril new religion wasn ’ t about proving the existence of God or proving the divinity of Christ but rather instilling a faith in people.

But one does not have to rely on the victims for stories of violence: Ted Patrick, one of the most notorious deprogrammers used by CAGs ( who has spent several terms in prison for his exploits ) openly boasts about some of the violence he employed ; in November 1987, Cyril Vosper, a Committee member of the British cult-awareness group, FAIR, was convicted in Munich of " causing bodily harm " in the course of one of his many deprogramming attempts ; and a number of similar convictions are on record for prominent members of CAGs elsewhere.

Here, it should be noted that several of the saints about whom Cyril was writing, especially Euthymios and Savas, were in fact from Cappadocia.

The Pakistan-India boundary continues irregularly southward for about 1, 280 kilometers, following the line of the 1947 Radcliffe Award, named for Sir Cyril Radcliffe, the head of the British boundary commission on the division of the Punjabs of Pakistan and Indian-annexed Khalistan in Pre-Pakistani territories and in united Bengal of India into Pakistan's Eastern wing of Mashriqi-Pakistan on 13 August 1947.

He cites the Burt Affair, about the allegedly fraudulent, oft-cited twin studies, by Cyril Burt ( 1883 – 1971 ), wherein he claimed that human intelligence is highly heritabile.

Ludmila, Wenceslas, Procopius, Cyril and Methodius, and Adalbert ), although numerous legends about Bohemian saints were also written by foreign authors.

According to McGuckin, Cyril viewed the " elevated intellectual intellectual argument about christology " as ultimately one and the same as the " validity and security of the simple Christian life ".

On 19 November, Nestorius, anticipating the ultimatum which was about to be delivered, convinced Emperor Theodosius II to summon a general council through which Nestorius hoped to convict Cyril of heresy and thereby vindicate his own teachings.

When Admiral Dudley Pound enquired about aerial assets in trade and commerce defence, Chief of the Air Staff Cyril Newall, replied that there was not enough " jam " to go around and stated it was more advisable to risk losses on trade routes than weaken the RAF's ability to protect Britain from air attack and bomb its enemies.

Bowra later told Cyril Connolly, " Whatever you hear about the war, remember it was far worse: inconceivably bloody – nobody who wasn't there can imagine what it was like.

Walford Davies ( left ) in about 1932 with fellow musicians Hugh Allen ( conductor ) | Sir Hugh Allen ( centre ) and Cyril Rootham ( right )

Alexandrian Easter tables were composed by Bishop Theophilus about 390 and within the bishopric of Cyril about 444.

He had an excellent command of Greek and his literary achievements surpass those of any other Russian man of letters of that era ... Of all his works, Cyril ’ s sermon with the triumphant description of spring as the symbol of the Resurrection was the most popular .” Indeed, this sermon is one of his best known works in which he creates some of his more compelling images like a simile comparing the melting of ice in the spring and Thomas ’ s dissolving doubts about Christ ’ s resurrection: “ Ныне зима греховнаа покаянием престала есть и лед невериа богоразумием растаяся ... лед же Фомина невериа показанием Христов ребр растаяся .” the winter of sin has stopped in repentance, and the ice of unbelief is melted by wisdom spring appears ...

Following its first meeting in March 1944 under Clapham's Presidency ( he was succeeded later that year by Sir Cyril Fox ), the Council initiated local excavation committees in a number of war-damaged towns, began to seek information about reconstruction projects, and set its Regional Groups the task of watching sites of all kinds.

* Team Mates, about a football team ; the players are Glenn Doddle, Cyril Breeches, Clemence Ray, Kenny Dogleash, and Dora Dribble.

Cyril tells Mildred that Drusilla hid Einstein in the hollow pine tree outside the school gates and that he overheard several conversations about stealing projects and turning pots into snakes.

Lucian was reconciled with the Church either early in the episcopate of Cyril ( perhaps about 285 ), which seems more likely, or under Cyril's successor Tyrannus.

Cyril found Alexandra a formidable woman, with her " high pitched voice .... driving about in an open carriage with a kind of awning over it, which could be opened and closed like an umbrella.