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that had been sacraments as well as state events. Communists removed study of the catechism and church history from school curricula. They generated anti-religious propaganda and persecuted some priests. 1947-49 was the apex of the campaign to intimidate the church. Bishop Boris was assassinated; Egumenius Kalistrat, administrator of the
2927:, Jeremiah, "to move with the help of God to the holy Church of Turnovo and to be allowed to perform everything befitting a prelate freely and without restraint." By around 1416, the territory of the Patriarchate of Turnovo was totally subordinated to the Ecumenical Patriarchate. The other Bulgarian religious centre – the 3318:, leading the church until his death in 2012. On 10 November 2012 Metropolitan Cyril of Varna and Veliki Preslav was chosen as interim leader to organize the election of the new Patriarch within four months. At the church council convened to elect a new Patriarch 24 February 2013, the Metropolitan of 3348:
Under Communism (1944–89), Bulgaria's rulers worked to control rather than destroy the church. Still, the early postwar years were unsettling to church hierarchs. During 1944-47 the church was deprived of jurisdiction in marriage, divorce, issuance of birth and death certificates, and other passages
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Discontent with the supremacy of the Greek clergy started to flare up in several Bulgarian dioceses as early as the 1820s. However, it was not until 1850 that the Bulgarians purposefully struggled against the Greek clerics in a number of bishoprics, demanding their replacement with Bulgarian ones. By
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monasteries in Bulgaria. The monks managed to preserve their national character in the monasteries, continuing traditions of the Slavonic liturgy and Bulgarian literature. They continued to operate monastery schools and carried out other educational activities, which managed to keep the flame of
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believed that cultural advancement and the sovereignty and prestige of a Christian Bulgaria could be achieved through an enlightened clergy governed by an autocephalous church. To this end, he manoeuvred between the Patriarch of Constantinople and the Roman Pope for a period of five years until in
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granted a number of important civil and judicial functions to the Patriarch of Constantinople and the diocesan metropolitans. After the higher-ranking Bulgarian church clerics were replaced by Greek ones at the beginning of the Ottoman period, the Bulgarian population was subjected to double
3353:, was imprisoned; and various other clergy were murdered or charged with crimes against the state. The communists soon replaced all clergy who refused to endorse the regime's policies. They banished Exarch Stefan, who had co-authored a book in 1948 that was considered anti-Communist. 2126: 3306:. In 1945 the schism was lifted and the Patriarch of Constantinople recognised the autocephaly of the Bulgarian Church. In 1950, the Holy Synod adopted a new Statute which paved the way for the restoration of the Patriarchate and in 1953, it elected the Metropolitan of Plovdiv, 2742:. The monks and the ordinary priests continued to be predominantly Bulgarian. To a large extent the archbishopric preserved its national character, upheld Slavonic liturgy, and continued its contribution to the development of Bulgarian literature. The autocephaly of the 2792:. They initially established an independent archbishopric in Tarnovo in 1186. It required almost 50 years of struggle for this archbishporic to receive recognition and elevation to the rank of a Patriarchate according to the canonical order. Following the example of 2955:
and a Greek consciousness on the emerging Bulgarian bourgeoisie. They used the Patriarchate of Constantinople to assimilate other peoples. At the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century, the clergy opened numerous schools utilizing the
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rather than the Bulgarian language as their medium of instruction; they nearly banned Bulgarian-language liturgy. These actions threatened the survival of the Bulgarians as a separate nation and people with its own, distinct national culture.
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had seven dioceses with prelates and eight more with acting chairmen in charge and 38 vicariates; 1,218 parishes and 1,212 parish priests; 64 monasteries and 202 chapels; as well as of 1,373 schools with 2,266 teachers and 78,854 pupils.
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clergy furthered neither the cultural development of the Bulgarians, nor the consolidation of the Bulgarian Empire; it would have eventually resulted in the loss of both the identity of the people and the statehood of Bulgaria.
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The raids and incursions into the Roman provinces in the 4th and the 5th centuries brought considerable damage to the ecclesiastical organisation of the Christian Church in the Bulgarian lands, yet did not destroy it.
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were both baptized together in Constantinople and from the surviving Christian communities, Christianity made inroads with local Bulgar-Slavic people. By the middle of the 9th century, the majority of the
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in the 1st century AD, when the first organised Christian communities were formed. By the beginning of the 4th century, Christianity had become the dominant religion in the region. Towns such as Serdica
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Throughout the centuries of Ottoman domination, Orthodox monasteries were instrumental in the preservation of the Bulgarian language and Bulgarian national consciousness. Especially important were the
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oppression – politically by the Ottomans and culturally by the Greek clergy. With the rise of Greek nationalism in the second half of the 18th century, the clergy imposed the
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and State Security coexisted in a closely symbiotic partnership, in which each supported the other. 11 (out of 15) members of Bulgarian Orthodox Church's Holy Synod worked for
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The Bulgarian Orthodox Church considers itself an inseparable member of the one, holy, synodal and apostolic church and is organized as a self-governing body under the name of
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Article on the medieval history of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church in the repository of the Institute for Byzantine Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (in German)
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into exile and the autocephaly of the church was revoked the next year. The church was organizationally integrated into the Ecumenical Patriarchate. In 1394, the
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between them, the Patriarchate of Constantinople recognised the autocephalous status of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and acknowledged its patriarchal dignity.
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at the end of the 13th century, its authority in the Eastern Orthodox world remained high. The Patriarch of Tarnovo confirmed the patriarchal dignity of the
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which said that a close relation should exist between an Empire and Patriarchate, Boris I greeted the arrival of the disciples of the recently deceased
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at an ecclesiastical and national council held in 919. After Bulgaria and the Byzantine Empire signed a peace treaty in 927 that concluded the
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From that time until the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the end of Communist rule in 1989, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and the
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Conditions for the restoration of the Bulgarian Patriarchate and the election of a head of the Bulgarian Church were created after
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The supreme clerical, judicial and administrative power for the whole domain of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church is exercised by the
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had effectively seceded from the Patriarchate. The Ottoman government restored the Bulgarian Patriarchate under the name of "
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granted the Bulgarians an autonomous Bulgarian archbishopric. The archbishopric had its seat in the Bulgarian capital of
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was elected Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church with 90 votes against 47 for Metropolitan Gabriel of Lovech.
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The Bulgarian Orthodox Church has its origin in the flourishing Christian communities and churches established in
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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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The Bulgarian Patriarchate was the first autocephalous Slavic Orthodox Church, preceding the autocephaly of the
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restored communion with the Macedonian Church in May 2022, the Bulgarian Church followed suit on 22 June 2022.
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Kalkandjieva, Daniela (2002). "The Restoration of the Patriarchal Dignity of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church".
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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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Daniela Kalkandjieva, 26. Balgarskata pravoslavna tsarkva i darzhavata, 1944-1953 , (Sofia: Albatros, 1997).
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Following the execution of many leaders of the Bulgarian orthodox church, it was fully subordinated to the
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in 886 as an opportunity. Boris I tasked them with the instruction of the future Bulgarian clergy in the
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nobility, with recorded conversions among that group. However, it was not until the official adoption of
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under Eastern Roman rule, were Christianized. The Christian religion also enjoyed some success among the
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promulgated on February 28, 1870. The original Exarchate extended over present-day northern Bulgaria (
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voted in 1874 overwhelmingly in favour of joining the Exarchate (Skopje by 91%, Ohrid by 97%), the
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Tsar Ivan Alexander (1331-1371), an illustration from the Four Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander (the
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developed under the wing of the Patriarchate in the 14th century, with scholars of the rank of
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Autocephaly and canonicity recognized by Constantinople and 3 other autocephalous Churches:
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dignity of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and consecrated the Bulgarian archbishop German as
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of the Church of Greece, the Patriarchate of Alexandria, and the Church of Cyprus in 2020.
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The Bulgarian Orthodox Church also has some 120 monasteries in Bulgaria, with about 2,000
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that time, most Bulgarian clergy had realised that further struggle for the rights of the
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by vicars. Thus, the borders of the Exarchate included all Bulgarian districts in the
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Ceramic icon of St. Theodor, Preslav, ca. 900 AD, National Archaeological Museum, Sofia
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as early as the first centuries of the Christian era. Christianity was brought to the
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with the Ecumenical Patriarchate in 2018, and later severed full communion with the
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could not succeed unless they managed to obtain some degree of autonomy from the
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Unofficial web portal of Bulgarian Orthodox Christianity: in Bulgarian language
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remained respected during the periods of Byzantine, Bulgarian, Serbian, and
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in 865 that an independent Bulgarian ecclesiastical entity was established.
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and with the consent of all Eastern Patriarchs, the council confirmed the
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rule. The church continued to exist until it was abolished in 1767 by the
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Although the archbishopric enjoyed full internal autonomy, the goals of
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UOC-MP was moved to formally cut ties with the ROC as of May 27th 2022.
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History of Bulgaria and the Bulgarian Orthodox Church according to the
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The Bulgarian Orthodox Church according to Overview of World Religions
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Article about the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and Religion in Bulgaria
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Despite a reduction in size of the boundaries of the diocese of the
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Following Bulgaria's two decisive victories over the Byzantines at
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in 1919, the Bulgarian Exarchate was deprived of its dioceses in
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manoeuvred for years between the Patriarch of Constantinople and
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Spiritual independence recognized by Georgian Orthodox Church:
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After Bulgaria fell under Byzantine domination in 1018, Emperor
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Assyrian Church of the East Patriarchate of Seleucia-Ctesiphon
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St. George, the Newmartyr of Sofia, icon from the 19th century
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Ancient Church of the East Patriarchate of Seleucia-Ctesiphon
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Religion and Nationalism in Soviet and East European Politics
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De facto independent Bulgarian states from the Second Empire
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legacy and branched where multiple denominational claimants:
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and between 1.5 and 2 million members in a number of other
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to ethnic nationalism” was essentially a manifestation of
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and was also the first call for a national awakening. In
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Autocephalous jurisdiction of the Eastern Orthodox Church
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