Metody Patchev

Who was Metody Patchev?

Metody Patchev was a Bulgarian revolutionary, vojvoda of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization. In the Republic of Macedonia he is regarded an ethnic Macedonian.

He was born in Ohrid, Ottoman Macedonia. As young guy he moved to Plovdiv, Bulgaria to apply for work in a leather production company. Later he arrived back to Ohrid and became a Bulgarian Exarchate teacher in 1896. Metody also known as Metodija applied himself in a secret society known then as Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees On August 5, 1898, Dimitar Grdanov, a Serbian teacher in Ohrid, and pro-Serbian activist in Macedonia, was murdered by Metody Patchev, after which Patchev and his fellow conspirators Hristo Uzunov, Cyril Parlichev and Ivan Grupchev were arrested. He stayed in Ottoman prison until 1901. After his release he applied as a teacher in the town of Prilep, but was unsuccessful due to his times in prison previously. Later in rejoining the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization he became involved in a cheta group under the command of Marko Lerinski. On 7 April 1902 he entered the village of Kadino Selo with six other revolutionaries unaware of the situation in Kadino Selo he went into an ambush. The Ottoman troops within the village, were under attack from a small group of revolutionaries. After fierce fighting in the village and surrounds, Metodija killed his friends and committed suicide.