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We celebrate Christ's Nativity!

Festivy Christmas liturgy at Saint Alexander Nevsky Cathedral
Photo: BTA

On December 25, Orthodox Christians and Catholics in Bulgaria celebrate the Nativity of Christ. 

On the eve of the holiday, a festive Christmas Eve service was held in the Patriarchal Cathedral Saint Alexander Nevsky, led by His Eminence the Western and Central European Metropolitan Anthony, who served the Melnik Bishop Gerasim, Belogradchik Bishop Polycarp, archimandrite Basil, Bishop Pakhomiy - rector of the Sofia Theological Seminary, archpriest Vladimir Tishchuk, representative of the Russian Patriarch in Bulgaria, Neluts Opria, representative of the Romanian Patriarch in Bulgaria, etc.

His Eminence the Western and Central European Metropolitan Anthony
At the end of the service, Metropolitan Anthony read the Christmas Eve address of His Holiness Patriarch Neophyte, in which he said: 

"In a world of more and more suffering and pain, of more and more and more violent military conflicts, sowing destruction and death, we are called with more more zeal to testify to the great mercy, unconditional love and peace that the Lord Jesus Christ brought us with His wonderful birth in the flesh, reconciling us to the heavens and showing us the right way to our heavenly Fatherland. The only way to truly thank God for everything what He has done for us and our salvation is to imitate Him in His divine love and in His mercy to all men".

Today from 09.30 a.m. in the patriarchal cathedral "St. Alexander Nevsky" the St. Basil liturgy for the Nativity of Christ is served.



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