The remains of Bulgarian Tsar Samuel will be officially received in Sofia on Saturday, October 3. They will be transported from Greece to Bulgaria aboard a Spartan military transport aircraft and then ...

Newly elected Bulgarian Patriarch Daniil blesses the people during his enthronement ceremony at Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia, Bulgaria, Sunday, June 30, 2024. Bulgaria's Orthodox Church on ...

ISTANBUL (RNS)—On Sunday, leaders of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church will gather in Sofia to decide on their new spiritual head — the Patriarch of All Bulgaria. The Bulgarian Church’s last patriarch, ...

(RNS) — After three high-ranking members of the Russian Orthodox Church were expelled from Bulgaria on charges of espionage last month, their former church is not only at the center of a diplomatic ...

Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria.When you come to Sofia, the first thing you want to see is the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral! It ...

SOFIA, BulgariaSOFIA, Bulgaria — 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. The ...

The return of the relics of Tsar Samuil to Bulgaria is an epochal event, and the agreement reached shows that diplomacy is yielding results". This was commented on the air of NOVA NEWS by the ...

The abbot of the Russian Orthodox Church in Sofia and two clerics from Belarus accused of espionage have left Bulgaria after being designated a threat to national security. The Russian Church in Sofia ...

Bulgaria’s Orthodox Church elected Daniil, a 52-year-old metropolitan considered to be pro-Russian, as its new leader Sunday in a vote that reflected the divisions in the church and wider society ...