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Kalistrat Zografski or Kalistrat of Zograf (Bulgarian: Калистрат Зографски; Greek: Καλλίστρατ ζωγράφος; c. 1821 – c. 1914) was a 19th-century Orthodox Christian composer, chanter, educator, Bulgarian abbot and archimandrite of the Zograf monastery, and reformer of Orthodox Church music, originating from Struga, Ottoman Empire, today North Macedonia. Extensively educated and absorbed ascetic theologian, musicologist and philologist. While as a student in his pre-monastic period, he worked as a Greek language teacher, but also as a professor in Byzantine church music. While residing in the Zograf Monastery (Mount Athos, Greece) founded the music school and the translation calligraphic literary school. As а brilliant theorist of the nematic Byzantine musical tradition, furthermore composer and chanter on the one hand and an expert linguist in ancient Greek, Slavic, new Greek and Romanian language on the other hand, he created timeless masterpieces and translations, thereby enriching the cultural heritage spiritual barns of the Orthodox ecumene to the utmost. Kalistrat Zografski is likely to be regarded as the best connoisseur of Byzantine neumatic ladder, created by the famous ascetic, composer and chanter, St. John Kukuzel (12th century). He died in 1914, as Archimandrite of the monastery Zograf, in Mount Athos, Greece.