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Nomination of Bulgarian Orthodox Church for Nobel Prize focus of talks between Patriarch and Jewish leaders

February 16, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews, Bulgarian Orthodox Church

The nomination of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church for the Nobel Peace Prize for its role in preventing the deportation of

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Bulgarian customs officers seize 2356 litres of illegal rakiya – from two monasteries

February 9, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church

Bulgaria’s Customs Agency has confiscated 2356 litres of illegal rakiya – the country’s traditional distilled spirit – from the Bachkovo

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Bulgaria 

Roumen Radev, Bulgaria’s new President, blessed in Bulgarian Orthodox Church ceremony

January 22, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Roumen Radev

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

December 26, 2016March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Dossier Commission

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

December 11, 2016March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church

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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The headquarters in Sofia of the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. Photo: Clive Leviev-Sawyer
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Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod to choose between two candidates to be Stara Zagora Metropolitan

December 4, 2016March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church

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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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Orthodox Church formally rejects Pan-Orthodox Council

November 29, 2016January 9, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church

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

November 19, 2016November 22, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church

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

October 3, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Plovdiv

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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