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The Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s head in Plovdiv, Metropolitan Nikolai, has ordered bells in the diocese to peal in honour of Prime Minister Boiko Borissov and the Cabinet after the government […]
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s governing body, the Holy Synod, said on September 28 that it had unanimously decided to dismiss Stara Zagora Metropolitan Galaktion on the grounds of severe ill […]
Controversy has erupted over the Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s failure to convey condolences on the murder of French Roman Catholic priest Father Jacques Hamel, with intellectuals and adherents of the church […]
Bulgarian professor Kalin Yanakiev says that he is convinced that the Bulgarian Orthodox Church decided against attending the Pan-Orthodox Council in Crete because of influence from the Russian Orthodox Church. […]
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew sent a message of unity of Orthodox Churches upon his arrival in Crete for the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church. Bartholomew, during a welcoming ceremony […]
In what has become a customary verbal attack, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church has criticised plans for the annual Sofia Pride Parade – in the case of 2016, specifically because the […]
In what was hardly a surprise move, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church called on June 13 for the postponement of the Pan-Orthodox Council due to start in […]
The Press Office of the Ecumenical Patriarchate received a notification this morning. An Open Letter of the Orthodox Scholars around the World To the most venerable Primates of the Autocephalous […]
The Georgian Orthodox Church said on June 10 it would not attend the Pan-Orthodox Council in Crete in June, the latest difficulty for the council after the Bulgarian Orthodox Church […]
Responding to the refusal of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church to attend the Pan-Orthodox Council and indications that some other Orthodox Christian churches might withdraw, the Ecumenical Patriarchate has called on […]
