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

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.

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The church is separate from the state, and it is incomprehensible how clerics can threaten national security," ambassador Eleonora Mitrofanova stressed SOFIA, September 21. /TASS/. The Bulgarian ...

for which our forefathers shed their blood," read one open letter signed by hundreds of non-Jewish Bulgarians in Sofia. Bulgaria's powerful Orthodox Church also denounced the anti-Jewish law.

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 ...

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 ...

Tsar Boris III saved Bulgaria’s Jews but was allied with Hitler and oversaw the murder of Jews in territories Bulgaria controlled. (JTA) — Bulgaria’s president was on hand on Friday for a ...