The governing body of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, the Holy Synod, unanimously elected on February 9 Branitsa Bishop ...

In a secret ballot vote in the Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s diocese of Vidin on February 2, two bishops were shortlisted to be ...

In Varna, tourists strolling past the seaside city's Archaeological Museum might notice a monument of a shofar, a Jewish horn inscribed with thanks to Bulgarians, "for our salvation during the ...

Registration of another denomination containing in its name the word ‘Orthodox’ won’t be allowed in Bulgaria - Anadolu Ajansı ...

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Patriarch Neophyte of Bulgaria, who was the first elected head of the Orthodox Church in the post-communist Balkan country, died at a hospital in Sofia. He was 78.

Orthodox priests sing and pray during a mass for the 'sanctification of honey' around honey jars with candles arranged in ...

SOFIA, March 14. /TASS/. Patriarch Neophyte, or Neofit, of Bulgaria has died at the age of 78, the Bulgarian Patriarchate said. "After a protracted illness, His Holiness Patriarch of Bulgaria and ...

He died in a hospital in Sofia after a long illness ... spiritual leader of the Muslim community in Bulgaria. Relations with the larger Russian Orthodox Church deteriorated after Moscow’s ...

So were representatives of the Bulgarian Orthodox church whose predecessors ... is being held — to Sofia’s oldest church, where they lay flowers on a memorial to Boris and his wife, Tsarina ...

The Bulgarian Orthodox Church today commemorates St. Athanasius ... A solemn liturgy will be held at the temple in the village of Lozen near Sofia, led by Patriarch Daniel. Following the service ...

SOFIA - Nikolai Balashov, a senior Russian Orthodox priest sanctioned by Ukraine and reportedly a former KGB colonel general, was granted entry into Bulgaria following the Patriarch’s invitation and ...