Bulgarian church row over return of the Archons
Clive Leviev-Sawyer
25/6/2012
A petition, public protest and open division among the Bulgarian Orthodox Church have followed the church’s new rules legitimising the awarding of the title “Archon” to lay people – with critics among the faithful lashing out at church leaders for conferring the title on those they allege hardly deserve it.
The row, revived in 2012, first broke out in 2007 when the title was given to Slavi Binev.
Binev, a Sofia business person in his 40s whose company is in the finance, security and entertainment business and reportedly owns what is arguably the Bulgarian capital city’s most popular pop-folk nightclub, was among four people made into an “Archon” that year – the first time that the title had been conferred since the 14th century.
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