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During the all-night vigil of 6 April 7th, when Mount Athos was celebrated as the Annunciation, as the monastic republic was on the old calendar and then on 25 March, four new  monks  were cut into the Zografski Slavonic Bulgarian monastery „St. George-Victorious“.  During the vigil, in the angelic order, the obedient ...

 Bulgarian Holy Synod decide for the visit of Pope Francis to Bulgaria: To prepare and send a letter of reply to Anselmo Guido Pecorari, pointing out that the invitation to visit Pope Francis in Bulgaria comes from the state authorities, so it is appropriate for the main events related to ...

The Divine Liturgy in the cathedral „St. Alexander Nevsky „was performed by His Holiness the Bulgarian patriarch Neophyte, who was in union with Bishop of Melnik Gerasim, Bishop of Belogradchik Polycarp, archim. Vasily, ic. Nikolay Georgiev, st. ic. Kostadin Gavrilov, Prot. Antony Milushev, priest Kostadin Trenev, protodiacon Ivan Petkov and ...

The meeting of His Holiness the Bulgarian Patriarch Neofit and the Metropolitans of the European Dioceses of the Armenian Church took place today in the building of the Sofia Bishopric. The reason for the meeting was the wish of the bishops to meet the patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church ...

Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria expressed, from Addis Ababa where he is at the moment, his personal and all Orthodox Church of Africa’s deep sorrow for the tragic accident at the Cairo Railway Station, which eventually caused 22 deaths and injured at least 40 people. In his statements, he sent ...

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel celebrates on 4 March 2019 his 29th anniversary of episcopal consecration. HB Romanian Patriarch Daniel was born on 22 July 1951, to parents Alexe and Stela Ciobotea, in Dobreşti village, Bara commune, county of Timiş. He was baptized Dan-Ilie. EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 1958 – 1962 – he ...

On Friday, March 1, 2019, His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, began a visit to Ethiopia, starting with a stay in the country’s capital, Addis Ababa. Source: the orthodox world.com

The Bulgarian Exarchate of the Bulgarian Orthodox is Church before its autocephaly was recognized by the Ecumenical See in 1945 and the Bulgarian Patriarchate was restored in 1953. The Exarchate (a de facto autocephaly) was unilaterally (without the blessing of the Ecumenical Patriarch) promulgated on May 23 [O.S. May 11] 1872, in the Bulgarian church in Constantinople in pursuance of the March 12 [O.S. February 28] 1870 firman of Sultan Abdülaziz of the Ottoman ...

Three years ago, on February 26, 2016, for the first time in the history of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, a canonization of a saint from two churches – the Bulgarian and Russian – took place. The celebrations for Archbishop Seraphim Sobolev, cannibalized as St. Serafim, the Sofia Wonderworker, continued for ...

Тoday is 6 years since anniversary of  intronization  of the Bulgarian patriarch Neophyte as a head of our Church.  The anniversary was celebrated with the Divine Liturgy celebrated  by His Eminence Metropolitan Nicholas of Plovdiv, in a ministry with His Eminence Metropolitan Seraphim of Nevrokop, Metropolitan Gregory of Vratsa, Metropolitan ...