On All Saints' Day, when the Bulgarian Orthodox Church marks the Synaxis of All-Praiseworthy Twelve Apostles of Christ and the memory of all known and unknown martyrs and confessors of Christ, the laity in Bulgaria were rewarded for their faith...
Bishop Sioniy, the abbot of the Troyan and Bachkovo monasteries, brought the relics of the Holy Patriarch Euthymius of Tarnovo to the Patriarchal Cathedral of St. Alexander Nevsky, which announced the event with a bell ringing. The shrine was..
The Bright Week for Orthodox Christians ends with the feast of Thomas Sunday. On this day, the Church commemorates the Apostle Thomas, one of the twelve disciples of Christ, called Doubting Thomas because he doubted the Resurrection. When the rumor..
The day of Christ's Crucifixion is the most sorrowful for the Christian community, the only one on which the Divine liturgy is not celebrated. There is also no Holy Communion, because the Lord Himself offered Himself as a sacrifice through the..
Due to the ongoing military actions in Israel, the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church has decided that this year a representative of Bulgaria will not travel to Jerusalem for the transfer of the Holy Fire to Bulgaria. This was announced by..
This morning, dozens of lay people flocked to the church of Saint Nedelya in central Sofia to pay homage to the memory of Patriarch Neophyte who passed away late last night. At the same time, believers from all over the country traveled hundreds of..
After a long illness, His Holiness the Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and Metropolitan of Sofia Neophyte has left us at the age of 78 . Shortly before midnight, on March 13, in an official statement, the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox..
On February 14 the Bulgarian Orthodox Church marks the Assumption of Constantine the Philosopher who took the name of Cyril in monkhood. Cyril came from noble parents in Thessaloniki. He studied at the Magnaura School in Constantinople. Because..
Today, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church pays hommageSaint Trifon. The saint, who lived in the III century in the Asia Minor region of Phrygia, had the gift of healing. He was killed after refusing to return to paganism. Saint Trifon is..
The construction of the first Bulgarian Orthodox church in London named after Saint Ivan Rilski is progressing . To date, only the Bulgarian Orthodox community does not have its own church in the United Kingdom. Construction begins of a new..
