Public donations prevent electricity being cut at Plovdiv’s St Marina church over unpaid bills
A day after controversial Bulgarian Orthodox Church Plovdiv Metropolitan Nikolai failed to auction off his luxurious wristwatch – attracting no
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Bulgarian Patriarch Neofit calls on protesters not to commit suicide
Bulgarian Orthodox Church Patriarch Neofit has called on protesters not to go to the extreme of committing suicide, an appeal
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Bulgarian Orthodox Church Patriarch to lead ‘prayer for reconciliation’ amid political and social crisis
Bulgarian Orthodox Church Patriarch Neofit is to lead a “prayer for the reconciliation of the Bulgarian people” on March 10
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Bulgarian Orthodox Church Metropolitan Joseph, of the US, Canada and Australia, resigns
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church Metropolitan of the United States, Canada and Australia, Joseph, has submitted his resignation to the Holy
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Plovdiv Metropolitan to sell Rolex to pay church electricity bill – report
The Metropolitan of Plovdiv, Nikolai, has donated his Rolex wristwatch to cover the high electricity bill incurred by the St
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Bulgaria’s Patriarchal elections: The metropolitan route on the election trail
There is something American about the undeclared race to be the Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s next Patriarch: populist messages, playing to
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Bulgarian church row over return of the Archons
A petition, public protest and open division among the Bulgarian Orthodox Church have followed the church’s new rules legitimising the
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Bulgarian Holy Synod bashes Sofia gay pride parade
The Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church said on June 14 that it was opposed to the annual Pride
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Different paths: the Russian and Bulgarian Orthodox churches
In recent months, Bulgarian – Russian church relations have been dominated by a minor dispute – the conflict at the
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