On 30 November, the Bulgarian Orthodox church honours the memory of the Apostle Andrew, known as First-Called. Together with his brother Peter he was among the first of Jesus Christ’s disciples. After the resurrection of Christ, when the apostles started preaching in different countries, Andrew travelled along what is now Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast and went to preach North.
After the St. Andrew’s day liturgy, a prayer for the health of Bulgarian Patriarch Neophyte took place at the chapel of Sofia University’s Faculty of Theology.
The 78-year old Patriarch of Bulgaria was admitted to hospital because of an exacerbation of a chronic lung condition. In the time of his hospitalization, the Holy Synod meetings are presided over by the most senior cleric, the Metropolitan Gregory of Veliko Tarnovo, the Holy Synod has announced.
Every year on February 10, the feast of St. Haralambos , Bishop of Magnesia, is celebrated with special solemnity in a small Bulgarian town in the northernmost part of the country's Black Sea coast . For Shabla and its residents, this is the..
Almost 40 years ago, Bulgarian Orthodox Church communities were established in Western and Central Europe in several cities - Budapest, Munich, Vienna, Stockholm, Malmö, Oslo and Paris. With Bulgaria's accession to the European Union and the expansion..
On February 4, Blagoevgrad will commemorate the 153rd anniversary of the birth of Bulgarian revolutionary Gotse Delchev with a wreath-laying ceremony. The ceremony will take place at 11am in front of the hero's monument on Macedonia Square. Voivode..
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