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The Bulgarian Orthodox Church held its own celebration of the 1000th anniversary of the founding of the Ohrid Archbishopric on June 10, having turned down an invitation to attend the […]
The head of the Varna diocese of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Yoan, has spoken out against the construction of a crematorium in the Bla ...
Bulgarian Orthodox Church Plovdiv Metropolitan Nikolai has become the latest Holy Synod member to speak out on the issue of the Macedonian Orthodox Ch ...
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s governing body, the Holy Synod, voted on May 14 to refuse an invitation from Archbishop Stefan of the Macedonian ...
The governing body of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, the Holy Synod, will meet this week on questions including whether it should accept a request from the Macedonian Orthodox Church to […]
The official Bulgarian Orthodox Church delegation bringing the “holy fire” from Jerusalem for Easter 2018 on April 7 was met at Sofia Airport by clergy from all over the country […]
In an annual Easter ritual sacred to Orthodox Christians, the “holy fire” was distributed at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on April 7 2018, Great Saturday in […]
A key element of celebrations of Easter among Orthodox Christians is the sharing of the “Holy Fire” which they believe emanates miraculously from within the Church of the Holy Sepulchre […]
Archimandrite Vassian Zmeev, the new representative in Bulgaria of Russian Patriarch Kirill, has arrived in Sofia and held talks with Bulgarian Orthodox Church Patriarch Neofit, specialist church news website Dveri […]
The leadership of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church has come to the defence of President Roumen Radev amid the controversy over his meeting with Russian Patriarch Kirill which became a central […]
