A great blessing and joy for all Orthodox Christians in Bulgaria is the Saint Athanasius Monastery near the town of Chirpan. It was founded by the saint himself in the IV century (344), near an old Roman fortress, close to the then town of Beroe..
On 10 May, 1953, the third ecclesiastical and national council in Sofia declared the Bulgarian Orthodox church a Patriarchate - from an Exarchate. The Metropolitan Bishop of Plovdiv Cyril was elected patriarch after a 560-year break. In the..
Today the Bulgarian Orthodox Church celebrates an anniversary of the restoration of the Bulgarian Patriarchate. Its existence was terminated at the end of the 14th century when Bulgaria fell under Ottoman rule. The restoration of the Bulgarian..
