Category: Bulgarian Orthodox
Bulgarian Church Faces Fine over Communist Era Files
Evtim Kostadinov, Chair of the so-called Files Commission, appeals to Bulgarian high-ranking clergy to act wisely and comply with the mandatory check of their Communist ... Read More
Controversy over Bulgarian Orthodox Church agreement to be checked by Dossier Commission
Patriarch Maxim, head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church from July 1971 to the present, is among those who will be checked by the Dossier Commission, ... Read More
Metropolitan Transport
Clive Leviev-Sawyer 16/12/2011 First he had resigned, then he had not; first the car was his, then it was not; or perhaps the story about ... Read More
Alfa, Macedonia: Bulgaria makes priests policemen who struggle with Macedonian Orthodox Church
FOCUS News Agency Southeast Europe and Balkans 9/12/2011 Skopje. The Bulgarian church was full of informers, comments the Macedonian television station Alfa. Read More
Communiqué of Meeting of the Primates and representatives of seven Local Orthodox Churches held in Moscow on the occasion of the 65th birthday of the…
On November 21, 2011, the Primates and representatives of seven Local Orthodox Churches: Antiochian, Russian, Georgian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Polish and of the Czech Lands and ... Read More
Bulgaria’s Top Landmark ‘St. Alexander Nevsky’ Falling Apart, Without Owner
18/11/2011 The world-famous St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, which is the landmark not only of Sofia but of all of Bulgaria, has got no owner to ... Read More
Bulgarians Celebrate 97th Birthday of Orthodox Church Patriarch Maxim
29/10/2011 A couple of hundred Bulgarians flocked to a solemn mas in the St. Read More
Imprinting the Divine: Byzantine and Russian Icons from the Menil Collection
Saint Marina, Lebanon, possibly Tripoli, 13th century (image courtesy The Menil Collection. photo by Paul Hester) 4/10/2011 On view beginning October 21, Imprinting the Divine ... Read More
Bulgarian Orthodox Church Calls for Peace, Justice Amid Ethnic Unrest
An icon of the Intercession (Veil) of Virgin Mary, a major holiday celebrated by Orthodox Christians in Bulgaria on October 1. Image by Pravoslavieto.com 2/10/2011 ... Read More
Setting the Record Straight: List of Churches in Turkey
By: Raffi Bedrosyan 23/8/2011 (A.W.)–The recently appointed ambassador to Turkey, Francis Ricciardone, responding to questions submitted by Senator Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), made incorrect claims about ... Read More