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 ...

TASS/. The Bulgarian authorities have decided to expel the dean of the Sofia Representation of the Russian Orthodox Church, Archimandrite Vassian, from the country, the Russian Embassy in Bulgaria ...

2024 judgment of the Supreme Court of Cassation which entered a religious institution named "Old Calendar Orthodox Church of Bulgaria" in the register of religious denominations with the Sofia ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

Sofia, on Sunday. But the Bulgarian Orthodox Church rejected the idea of joining prayers or services with him. In a statement last month, it explained its position, saying that the invitation for ...

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 ...

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 ...