Abstract

There are two liturgical services for St Prohor of Pčinja (XIth c.) in Old Church Slavonic: the first one was already in existence during the XVIth–XVIIth centuries, while the second one is known merely from later manuscript and printed sources of the second half of the XIXth century (it was also included the latest edition of Srbljak printed in 1986). The author presents evidence that the two Canons of the second service contain a joint acrostic which includes not merely the author’s name (it was already noticed by Đ. Trifunović), but also a previously unnoticed phrasal acrоstic. There is good reason to believe that the Service was composed by the monk Dionysius of Hilandar (born in Gabrovo) during his stay in the Monastery of Venerable Prohor of Pčinja (now in southern Serbia) in 1857–1863.