Bulgarian Church Marks 40 Years Since Its Patriarch’s Enthronement

3/6/2011 An official solemn mass marking the 40th anniversary of the enthronement of Bulgarian Patriarch Maxim is being held in Sofia’s Alexander Nevski cathedral Sunday. The official commemoration of the 96-year-old Patriarch Maxim’s enthronement started Saturday, when the relics of the great Christian Orthodox theologian St. Maximus the Confessor traveled from Mount Athos to be laid out for veneration in the patriarchal St.