In a secret ballot vote in the Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s diocese of Vidin on February 2, two bishops were shortlisted to be ...

In Varna, tourists strolling past the seaside city's Archaeological Museum might notice a monument of a shofar, a Jewish horn ...

The Bulgarian Orthodox Church is the sole representative of the country’s traditional Eastern Orthodox Christianity and it alone may can use the term “Orthodox” in its name, Bulgaria’s ...

Registration of another denomination containing in its name the word ‘Orthodox’ won’t be allowed in Bulgaria - Anadolu Ajansı ...

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.

SOFIA - Nikolai Balashov, a senior Russian Orthodox priest sanctioned by Ukraine and reportedly a former KGB colonel general, was granted entry into Bulgaria following the Patriarch’s invitation and ...

So were representatives of the Bulgarian Orthodox church whose predecessors ... is being held — to Sofia’s oldest church, where they lay flowers on a memorial to Boris and his wife, Tsarina ...

During World War II, under pressure from Nazi Germany, Bulgaria joined the Tripartite Pact in 1941 and enacted the Law for the Protection of the Nation, which targeted the Jewish minority. Despite ...

On Epiphany, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church also celebrates the name day ... with the main ceremony in Sofia starting at 11:00 a.m. in front of the Monument to the Unknown Soldier.

The Bulgarian Orthodox Church today commemorates St Athanasius the Great recognized as the father of Orthodox theology A solemn liturgy w ...

The celebration of Epiphany, or the Apparition of Christ, as Bulgarians call it, began on Monday in Sofia with a water blessing ceremony. Senior clergymen of Bulgaria’s Orthodox church said ...

Surrounded by mountains in the heart of the Balkans, Sofia’s strategic location made it a focus for invasion over the centuries.