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includes also the six Bulgarian bishops which constitute the Exarchate's Synod. The role of newly found council have been to create draft for the Exarchate's Statute, which prescribes the inner administrative order of the Bulgarian autocephalous church. Over the next ten months, the council have discussed ideas about Exarchate's Statue. During the discussions two political camps emerged. The ″liberal-democratic″ camp included Petko Slaveykov, Todor Ikonomov and Stoyan Chomakov which argued about priority of democratic and representative functions of the Exarchate. From their point of view, civil members of the Exarchate's institutions should lead conduction of administrative functions, outside of strictly religious practices. The ″conservative″ camp argued about keeping strict church hierarchy in Exarchate's activities, pleaded for strict following of Orthodox traditions and insisted on more institutional powers based on the Exarch figure. Representatives of ″conservative″ camp were P.V. Odjakov and Ilarion Makariopolski. This political discussion continued ideological opposition between ″young″ and ″old″ patriotic groups, which were in the foundation of differentiation between the Conservative and Liberal political fractions in the Constituent Assembly in 1879 in Veliko Tarnovo.
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May 11] 1872, in the Bulgarian St. Stephen Church in Constantinople, which had been closed by the Ecumenical Patriarch's order, Antim I, along with other Bulgarian hierarchs who were then restricted from all priestly ministries, celebrated a liturgy, whereafter he declared autocephaly of the
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rule. The Serbians expelled Exarchist churchmen and teachers and closed Bulgarian schools and churches (affecting the standing of as many as 641 schools and 761 churches). Thousands of Bulgarian refugees left for Bulgaria, joining an even larger stream from the devastated Aegean Macedonia, where the
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alone, the Bulgarian Exarchate had seven dioceses with prelates and eight more with acting chairmen in charge and 38 vicariates, 1,218 parishes and 1,310 parish priests, 1331 churches, 73 monasteries and 234 chapels, as well as 1,373 schools with 2,266 teachers and 78,854 pupils. Almost all of the
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It was not, however, until the 1850 that the Bulgarians initiated a purposeful struggle against the Greek clerics in a number of bishoprics demanding their replacement with Bulgarian ones as well as other changes such as the use of Bulgarian in liturgy and fixed salaries for bishops. By that time,
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The process of constituting the Exarchate as legal institution was important part of nation-building process. A meeting of the Bulgarian leaders in Constantinople chaired by Gavril Krastevich is convened on March 13, 1870 to elect ten civil members of the Temporary church council. The council
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granted the right to establish an autonomous Bulgarian Exarchate for the dioceses of Bulgaria as well as those, wherein at least two-thirds of Orthodox Christians were willing to join it, by issuing the Sultan's
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The result of the work of Paisius and his followers began before long to give fruit. Discontent with the supremacy of the Greek clergy started to flare up in several Bulgarian dioceses as early as the 1820s.
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February 28] 1870. The firman envisaged a broad autonomy of the Exarchate but would leave it under the supreme canonical authority of the Ecumenical See, i.e. not full autocephaly.
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intensified throughout the 1860s. As the Greek clerics were ousted from most Bulgarian bishoprics at the end of the decade, the whole of northern Bulgaria, as well as the northern parts of
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From Rum Millet to Greek and Bulgarian Nations: Religious and National Debates in the Borderlands of the Ottoman Empire, 1870–1913, Theodora Dragostinova , Ohio State University, Columbus.
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in the religious organization of the Orthodox Church, and the secession from the Patriarchate was officially condemned by the Council in Constantinople in September 1872 as
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voted in 1874 overwhelmingly in favour of joining the Exarchate (Skopje by 91%, Ohrid by 97%) the Bulgarian Exarchate became in control of the whole of Macedonia (
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Daniela Kalkandjieva, “The Restoration of the Patriarchal Dignity of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church,” Bulgarian Historical Review, Sofia, vol. 4, (1994): 101–105.
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The Great Church in Captivity: A Study of the Patriarchate of Constantinople from the Eve of the Turkish Conquest to the Greek War of Independence
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in "The National Question in Yugoslavia. Origins, History, Politics", pp. 307-328, Cornell University Press, 1984, retrieved on September 8, 2007.
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The foundation of the Exarchate was the direct result of the actions of the most extreme Bulgarian nationalists under leadership of
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The immediate effect of the partition of the Ottoman Empire during the Balkan Wars was the anti-Bulgarian campaign in areas under
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Prof. Voin Bozhinov, "Bulgarian education in Macedonia and the Adrianople region of Thrace (1878–1913)", Publishing house of the
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could not succeed unless they managed to obtain at least some degree of autonomy from the Patriarchate of Constantinople.
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In this way, in the struggle for recognition of a separate Church, the modern Bulgarian nation was created under the name
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A short history of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church by CNEWA, the papal agency for humanitarian and pastoral support
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formally established the Bulgarian Orthodox Church as the national religion of the nation. On the eve of the
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and the majority of ethnic Bulgarians were Orthodox Christians, they were automatically included in the
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1912/1913, the Bulgarian Exarchate disposed of a total of 23 bishoprics in Bulgaria, most of the
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Firman of Sultan Abdülaziz for the establishment of the Bulgarian Exarchate, February 27, 1870.
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Exarch Antim I was discharged by the Ottoman government immediately after the outbreak of the
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most Bulgarian religious leaders had realised that any further struggle for the rights of the
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Blood Ties, Religion, Violence and the Politics of Nationhood in Ottoman Macedonia, 1878–1908
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by vicars. Thus, the borders of the Exarchate included all Bulgarian districts in the
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A Concise History of Bulgaria, R. J. Crampton, Cambridge University Press, 2005,
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had to resign before being confirmed by the government) Bulgarian Exarch was
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who was elected by the Holy Synod of the Exarchate on February 28 [
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The subsequent Council in Constantinople, chaired by Ecumenical Patriarch
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In seeking to calm down the disturbances, the Ottoman government of the
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History of Bulgaria and the Bulgarian Orthodox Church according to the
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Simeon Radev, "The Builders of Modern Bulgaria", volume 1, chapter 3,
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claimed neutrality, but the Russian government, represented by Count
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Commemorative coin released for 140 years of the Bulgarian Exarchate
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and the election of head of the Bulgarian Church were created after
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in 1919, the Bulgarian Exarchate was deprived of its dioceses in
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had, to all intents and purposes, seceded from the Patriarchate.
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schoolmasters had been born in Macedonia and Adrianople Thrace.
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Eastern Orthodox organizations established in the 19th century
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in 1945 and the Bulgarian Patriarchate was restored in 1953.
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Austro-Hungarian campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878
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The Exarchate's borders went on to extend over present-day
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Official name of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church (1870–1913)
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As the Ottomans identified nationality (ethnicity) with
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List of Patriarchs of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church
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