[2] According to Dvornik, Gorazd was a native speaker of the local Slavic dialect but also fluent in Latin, possibly due to being educated in Bavaria and likely Greek.

According to this source, Gorazd travelled to Rome with Saints Cyril and Methodius in 867 and was ordained a priest by Pope Formosus the following year.

[4] After the death of Saint Methodius, Gorazd took over the leadership of the Slavonic liturgy Church in the kingdom of Great Moravia as his designated successor.

Dvornik considers it unlikely due to the opposition of Western prelates to Saint Methodius at the time, which was made worse by his choice of a Moravian noble as a successor, which they likely saw as an attempt to sway the local nobility towards Byzantium.

The bishop was a staunch opponent of the Byzantine influences and accused the missionaries from Byzantium and their disciples of heresy over the filioque controversy and Byzantine-style observation of feasting days.

[6] Nonetheless, The Long Life of Clement of Ohrid does not mention Gorazd among the Saint Methodius disciples who fled to Bulgaria.

[14] The documentary Fragile Identity by Zuzana Piussi includes a video of a group of Slovak women praying in tongues while traveling to an alleged grave of Gorazd in Albania.