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Bulgarian Orthodox Church Honors Sts Cyril and Methodius

May 12, 2013 Featured News

12/5/13 Bulgaria’s Orthodox Church celebrates Saturday, May 11, the feast day of Sts.Cyril and Methodius, two of the fathers of the Slavic literary culture. The two brothers, Saints Cyril and Methodius were born in Thessaloniki in the 9th century, in 827 and 826 respectively. They became missionaries of Christianity among the Slavs and influenced the cultural development of all Slavic people. Cyril and Methodius are known as the [...]

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Bulgarians place highest trust in Bulgaria’s Orthodox Church: poll

April 4, 2013 Featured News

4/4/13 Sofia. Bulgarians place highest trust in the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and this is the only institution with a positive rating, show the results of the latest public opinion survey carried out by the Institute of Social Surveys and Marketing MBMD, presented at a press conference on Tuesday, FOCUS News Agency reporter informed. According to [...]

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‘A nation that showed courage’: Bulgaria and the Jews

March 8, 2013 Featured News

  CLIVE LEVIEV-SAWYER in ANALYSIS, BULGARIA, NEWS, PERSPECTIVES 8/3/13 Had Bulgaria’s history been different 70 years ago, March 10 would be an occasion for the deepest mourning, because that was the date marked in 1943 for the deportation of Bulgarian Jews to Nazi Holocaust death camps. There is, of course, a day of mourning for the six million who died [...]

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Bulgarian Orthodox Bishop Donates Rolex To Pay Church’s Electricity

February 27, 2013 Featured News

Ria Novosti - 27/2/13 Metropolitan Nikolay from Bulgaria’s second largest city of Plovdiv has donated his expensive Rolex watch to a local church so it could pay off an electricity bill, Novinite.com reported on Wednesday. The Saint Marina Church in Plovdiv recently received an electricity bill for January that amounted to the sum of BNG 2,940 [...]

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Patriarch Neofit of Bulgaria receives delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church

February 27, 2013 News

On February 26, 2013, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, met with His Holiness Neofit, Patriarch of Bulgaria, and members of the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Patriarchate. Participating in the meeting were Metropolitans Dometian of Vidin, Kiril of Varna and Veliki Preslav, Joseph of America, Canada [...]

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Bulgaria’s Chief Mufti congratulates Patriarch Neofit

February 26, 2013 News

26/2/13 Bulgaria’s Chief Mufti, Mustafa Hadzhi, has extended congratulations to Bulgaria’s new Orthodox Patriarch Neofit. “It is an exceptional honor to me to offer the most sincere and heartfelt congratulations on behalf of all Bulgarian citizens practicing Islam and me, on the occasion of your enthronization as Bulgarian Patriarch and Sofia Metropolitan,” Mustafa Hadzhi’s letter [...]

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Metropolitan Neofit elected as new Patriarch of Bulgarian Orthodox Church

February 24, 2013 Featured News

  24/2/13 SOFIA, Bulgaria – The Bulgarian Orthodox Church says Metropolitan Neofit has been elected as the new patriarch. Neofit, who is 67, was picked Sunday among three candidates shortlisted in a secret ballot by the 14 bishops that make up the Holy Synod of the church. An electoral college made up of 138 members [...]

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Registration of delegates for Bulgaria Patriarchal Electoral Church Council starts

February 23, 2013 News

23/2/13 Sofia. Registration of the delegates for the Bulgarian Patriarchal Electoral Church Council starts on Saturday, February 23. The registration process will kick off at 10 a.m. and will be held at the House of the Holy Synod. The Bulgaria Orthodox Church expects at least 40 guests – from Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and [...]

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Bulgarian Holy Synod: All three runners worthy of Patriarch

February 19, 2013 Featured News

19/2/13 Bulgaria’s embattled Holy Synod issued an official statement Monday declaring all three bishops, elected to run for becoming the next Patriarch of the country, worthy of the post. The three who were chosen after prolonged debates and stalemates over the weekend are: the Stara Zagora metropolitan Galaktion, Ruse’s Neofit, and Lovech’s Gavriil. Galaktion was [...]

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Bulgarians Celebrate Love and Wine

February 14, 2013 News

14/2/ 13 Bulgarians celebrate Thursday two holidays in one – the Day of Love and the Day of Wine. Bulgaria has been marking the two holidays on February 14 since the fall of Communism in the late eighties, when the day of the sweethearts came to the country. Previously completely ignored by lovebirds in Bulgaria, [...]

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Bulgaria to Unveil New Orthodox Patriarch on February 24

February 5, 2013 Featured News

5/2/13 The Bulgarian Orthodox Church will announce its new Patriarch on February 24, local clerics confirmed on Monday. An election of delegates who will elect the church’s new Patriarch was held in January. The delegates will convene on February 24 to elect Bulgaria’s new Patriarch, out of the three candidacies proposed by the Holy Synod [...]

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Bulgaria Orthodox Church remembers communist victims

February 2, 2013 News

2/2/13 Bulgaria’s Christian Orthodox Church commemorated for the first time the victims of communist repression on Friday, 23 years after the toppling of the regime. A special memorial service was held at Sofia’s Alexander Nevski cathedral by Varna metropolitan and interim patriarch Kiril, joined by a number of other Church dignitaries. “This is the first [...]

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Bulgaria’s President and Minister of Education to Save Bulgarian Church in Rome

January 12, 2013 News

12/1/13 (Sofia, Jan 9) – Bulgaria’s President, Rossen Plevneliev and minister of education, Sergey Ignatov, will save the Bulgarian church in Rome. “Bulgaria’s Head of State is quite worried with what is happening in the presented by late Pope John II church Santi Vincenzo e Anastasio a Trevi to the Bulgarian community in Rome. Due [...]

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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Prays for Maxim, Bulgaria

November 30, 2012 News

  30/11/2012 Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev met Christian Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in Istanbul Thursday. “We prayed for the soul of the late Bulgarian Patriarch Maxim. We prayed for the Bulgarian people and Church, and for the swift election of a new patriarch,” said Bartholomew after the meeting. “The Bulgarian Orthodox Church is the first spiritual sister of the ConstantinoplePatriarchy and has always been deep [...]

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Bulgaria’s New Patriarch To Be Elected Febr 24 2013

November 28, 2012 Featured News

27/11/2012 Bulgaria’s new patriarch, to succeed the late Patriarch Maxim, will be elected on February 24, 2013, the Holy Synod of the country’s Orthodox Church decided at a meeting on Tuesday. A rift among the Bishops shook the Holy Synod after Bulgaria’s Patriarch Maxim, who led the Church since 1971, passed away on November 6 at the age of 98. The election of a new Patriarch must be [...]

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Interim Patriarch Calls for Unity of Bulgarian Orthodox Church

November 18, 2012 Featured News

18/11/2012 The unity of the Holy Synod and of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church is the most important issue for Orthodox Christians in Bulgaria, according to Varna MetropolitanKiril. Kiril made the statement Sunday in the Bulgarian capital during his very first mass asSofia Metropolitan and interim Patriarch. “When opinions differ, each must be well-grounded. I hope that all metropolitanswill attend the next meeting of the Holy Synod and that [...]

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Advent, and the time of casting of stones in Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod

November 15, 2012 News

CLIVE LEVIEV-SAWYER 15/11/2012 The eve of the Advent Fast for Bulgaria’s Orthodox Church leaders found them in anything but the mood of quiet contemplation intended by tradition; in contrast, blood-curdling allegations were flying in the power struggle to be Patriarch. Plovdiv Metropolitan Nikolai has a history of mental health problems and while he was crying [...]

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Thousands of Bulgarians pay last respects to their patriarch

November 9, 2012 Featured News

8/11/2012 -  BY VESELIN TOSHKOV, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SOFIA, Bulgaria – Thousands of mourners waited for hours on Thursday to pay their respects to the late Bulgarian Orthodox Church Patriarch Maxim at a church in Sofia. Maxim’s body remained on display in an open coffin at the St. Nedelya Church, and a memorial service was [...]

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Patriarch Maxim of Bulgaria Enters Eternal Rest

November 6, 2012 Featured News

Associated Press 6/11/2012 SOFIA, Bulgaria –  Patriarch Maxim of Bulgaria, who weathered a revolt over his communist-era ties to lead the Balkan country’s Orthodox Christians for more than 40 years, has died. He was 98. The patriarch died of heart failure early Tuesday at a Sofia hospital where he had been for a month, the [...]

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Patriarch Maxim of Bulgaria dies at age 98

November 6, 2012 Featured News

06/11/12 SOFIA, Bulgaria—Patriarch Maxim of Bulgaria, the spiritual leader of the Balkan country’s Orthodox Christians who weathered a revolt over his communist-era ties to head the church for more than 40 years, has died. He was 98. The patriarch died of heart failure early Tuesday at a Sofia hospital where he had been for a [...]

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The Nun Paraskeva, the Heavenly Patron of Moldova

November 5, 2012 Featured News

  Commemorated on October 14 The Nun Paraskeva the Serbian was born into a pious Bulgarian family, living during the XI Century in the village of Epivato, betwixt Silistra and Constantinople. One day, while listening to Divine-services, the words of the Lord pierced her heart like an arrow: “Whoso doth wish to come follow Me, [...]

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Bulgaria’s Patriarch Maxim Turns 98

November 2, 2012 Featured News

29/10/2012 Bulgarian Orthodox Patriarch Maxim turns 98 on Monday, with a Great Liturgy marking his birthday expected to be held in Sofia’s St. Alexander Nevski cathedral. The Great Liturgy will also commemorate the centennary of the cathedral’s construction. Sunday marked the beginning of a three-day long feast by the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, celebrating the centennary, [...]

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Bulgaria Honors Miracle Worker St. Ivan Rilski

October 20, 2012 Featured News

20/10/2012 Orthodox Christians in Bulgaria commemorated on October 19 Saint Ivan Rilski, known as the Miracle Worker and also celebrated as the patron of Bulgaria. St. Ivan Rilski founded the Rila Monastery some 1 000 years ago. The saint’s relics are kept there to this day, and are still believed to have the power to [...]

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Bulgaria’s 2nd Largest Cathedral Faces Collapse

October 12, 2012 News

October 2012 Bulgaria’s second largest Orthodox cathedral, the Danube town of Vidin’s “St. Martyr Dimitar”, is in urgent need of repair, as part of it may otherwise collapse, according to local media. Archimandrite Polycarp of the Vidin Bishopric has told the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency that six of the church’s nine domes are badly cracked, with [...]

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Bulgaria’s president opens exhibit on country’s WWII defense of Jews

September 30, 2012 News

By Matt Lebovic 29/9/2012 After a stop at the UN General Assembly, Rosen Plevneliev speaks at launch event at Boston University’s Hillel Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev told a Boston audience Thursday evening about the long-standing affinity between his country and the Jewish people, including the State of Israel. Plevneliev’s visit to America’s so-called “cradle of [...]

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