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Bulgarian Orthodox Church Honors Sts Konstantin and Elena

May 22, 2013 News

22/5/13 Bulgarian Christian Orthodox mark Saturday the feast day of St. St. Konstantin andElena (Constantine and Helena). Helena was the mother of Emperor Konstantin, who fought two great battles when he came to the throne: one against Maxentius, a tyrant in Rome, and the other against Licinius not far from Byzantium. At the battle against Maxentius, whenKonstantin was in great anxiety and [...]

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Bulgarian Patriarch: Kids Need to Know More about Orthodox Christianity

May 20, 2013 Featured News

19/5/13 Bulgarian kids should have the opportunity to learn about their Orthodox Christian heritage, stated Bulgarian Orthodox Church Patriarch Neofit. Sunday Neofit extended an address to the clergy and people of the Church on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the restoration of the Bulgarain patriarchy. The message, read out by bishop Naum, Chief Secretary of the Holy Synod, made [...]

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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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Bulgarian Orthodox Christians Celebrate Palm Sunday

April 29, 2013 News

29/4/13 Bulgarian Orthodox Christians celebrate Palm Sunday – Tsventisa-Vrabnitsa, to mark the triumphal arrival of Christ into Jerusalem. The Bulgarian tradition is to carry flowers and willow branches, rather than palm leaves, and the day is also regarded as the holiday of the fields, meadows and forests. It is one of the most important holy [...]

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Bulgarian Orthodox Church nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

March 18, 2013 Featured News

Moscow Times 18/3/13 The Bulgarian Orthodox Church has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, says the official website of its Holy Synod. This year Bulgaria marked 70 years since the rescue of the Bulgarian Jews during World War II. The National Assembly in 1943 decided to impose a ban on their deportation, despite being [...]

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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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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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Patriarch Neofit:The Cross is Heavy

February 25, 2013 Featured News

25/2/13 Heavy is the cross that God and our Holy Church are giving me today, but in God’s words I trust and ask him for strength for when I am weak, then am I strong, Bulgaria’s new patriarch said. Patriarch Neofit delivered his first address to the Bulgarian Orthodox Christians during his inauguration at St. [...]

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New Patriarch to pray for peace in Bulgarian’s Soul

February 25, 2013 News

25/2/13 Neofit, the newly elected Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, vowed to pray for peace in the hearts of the Bulgarian people, minutes after he was officially enthroned. On his way to the Holy Synod, the new patriarch declined to make any comments to the reporters and his only words were: “The first task [...]

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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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Ruse Metropolitan Neofit Elected Bulgarian Patriarch

February 24, 2013 Featured News
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  24/2/13 Ruse Metropolitan Neofit has been elected Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church by the Holy Synod’s national church council. Neofit prevailed over two other candidates at runoff. The three who were were chosen after prolonged debates and stalemates last weekend were: Neofit, the Stara Zagora metropolitan Galaktion, and Lovech’sGavriil. The news about Neofit’s election was announced Sunday by interim Patriarch andSofia Metropolitan, Kiril. Neofit collected 90 votes at runoff against Gavrail, who got 47. The announcement [...]

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Bulgarian Orthodox Church Holds Historic Patriarch Vote

February 24, 2013 Featured News

24/2/13 The new Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church is going to be elected Sunday by the Holy Synod at a national church council. Bulgaria’s Patriarch Maxim, who led the Church since 1971, passed away on November 6, 2012, at the age of 98. The election is historic for Bulgaria as the last one happened [...]

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The Holy Synod elects Metropolitan bishops of Ruse, Stara Zagora and Lovech

February 17, 2013 Featured News

Bulgarian Orthodox Church – 17/2/13 Sofia. The Holy Synod published on its official website a communication on the election of three candidates for the patriarchal throne. The communication of the Holy Synod said: Today, February 16, 2013, the Synod Office after long hours of voting followed the meeting of the previous day, the Holy Synod [...]

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Election of Bulgarian Patriarchal Candidates Reaches Stalemate

February 17, 2013 News

17/2/13 The election of Bulgaria’s new Orthodox patriarch reached a stalemate on Saturday, with the Holy Synod reportedly being unable to pick two of the three candidates for the job. On Friday, Stara Zagora bishop Galaktion became the first candidate named by the Holy Synod. He is still the only patriarch hopeful to have gathered [...]

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Bulgarian Church to name 3 Patriarch Candidtes

February 16, 2013 News

16/2/13   The Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church will name Friday and Saturday the three candidates for the position of patriarch. The new Bulgarian patriarch will be chosen at a national church council the following Sunday, February 24. A candidate must be a serving metropolitan bishop, to have been in that position for [...]

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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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Plovdiv metropolitan bishop says he does not want to be elected Patriarch of Bulgaria

January 14, 2013 News

14/1/13 – FOCUS News Agency Plovdiv. Metropolitan bishop Nikolay of Plovdiv has announced that he does not want to be elected Patriarch of Bulgaria. “You should know that metropolitan bishop Nikolay of Plovdiv will not violate a principle,” metropolitan bishop Nikolay said in his address to the eparchial voters in relation with the election of [...]

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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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Bulgarian Orthodox Christians Mark St. Stephen

December 29, 2012 News
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27/12/12 The Bulgarian Orthodox Church marks Thursday the Day of Saint Stephen, the first Christian martyr and first archdeacon in the Jerusalem Community Church. The community church accepted people from all social circles and the rich supported the church while Stephen designated the activity and the vocation of each member. It is believed that this [...]

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Nikolay Surprisingly Attends Bulgarian Holy Synod Sitting

November 26, 2012 News

26/11/2012 Bulgaria’s Plovdiv Metropolitan Nikolay made Monday a surprise appearance at the sitting of the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. 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. In the aftermath of the Patriarch’s death and of the controversial election of VarnaMetropolitan Kiril for Sofia Metropolitan and interim Patriarch, Nikolay declared he was withdrawing for [...]

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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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Bulgarian Holy Synod Upholds Interim Patriarch Choice

November 16, 2012 News

16/11/2012 Bulgarian New York Metropolitan Yosif is going to travel to Sofia next week to participate at the next meeting of the Holy Synod. Speaking before Darik radio, the Bishop of America, Canada and Australia, stated he would refrain from commenting on matters involving the Bulgarian Orthodox Church ahead of his report before the Holy Synod. He stressed the other members of the Synod get irritated [...]

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Holy Synod: Election of the head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church is not subject to judicial control

November 15, 2012 Featured News

15/11/2012 - Focus News Agency Sofia. The election of head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church (BOC) is not subject to state judicial control. This is the canonical question and issue of management decisions of the autocephalous Orthodox Church. That is said in the statement of the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, on the occasion of the [...]

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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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Bulgarian Orthodox Church to Choose Interim Patriarch

November 10, 2012 News

10/11/2012 The Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church is sitting at an extraordinary council Saturday to elect its interim head after the passing of Patriarch Maxim. Maxim, who has led the Church since 1971, died Tuesday, age 98, and was solemnly buried Friday. The Church has to choose a successor within four months, among [...]

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