Bulgarian customs officers seize 2356 litres of illegal rakiya – from two monasteries
Bulgaria’s Customs Agency has confiscated 2356 litres of illegal rakiya – the country’s traditional distilled spirit – from the Bachkovo
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Roumen Radev, Bulgaria’s new President, blessed in Bulgarian Orthodox Church ceremony
Prayers and blessings were said for Bulgaria’s new head of state, President Roumen Radev, at a ceremony in Sofia’s landmark
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Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s Vratsa Metropolitan Kalinik dies
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church Metropolitan of Vratsa, Kalinik, died on December 26 at the age of 85. Kalinik, who headed
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Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod elects Kipriyan as new Metropolitan of Stara Zagora
In a unanimous vote on December 11, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod elected Bishop Kipriyan as the new Metropolitan
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Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod to choose between two candidates to be Stara Zagora Metropolitan
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s governing body, the Holy Synod, will on December 11 choose from between two candidates to be
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Bulgarian Orthodox Church formally rejects Pan-Orthodox Council
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s governing body, the Holy Synod, has formally rejected the Pan-Orthodox Council and its conclusions, it emerged
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Bulgarian Orthodox Church Patriarch backs initiative against same-sex marriages in EU
Bulgarian Orthodox Church Patriarch Neofit has sent a letter of support for an initiative that insists on a uniform definition
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Bulgarian Orthodox Church head in Plovdiv orders bells to peal in honour of PM, government
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s head in Plovdiv, Metropolitan Nikolai, has ordered bells in the diocese to peal in honour of
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Bulgarian Orthodox Church dismisses Stara Zagora Metropolitan Galaktion
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s governing body, the Holy Synod, said on September 28 that it had unanimously decided to dismiss
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