Bulgarian parliament recognized Bulgarian Orthodox Church as the sole representative of Eastern Orthodox Christianity in the country, after a new bill adopted by the parliament. The bill was ...

In a secret ballot vote in the Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s diocese of Vidin on February 2, two bishops were shortlisted to be ...

Believers attend an Orthodox mass for the 'sanctification of honey', at the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin church in the ...

The governing body of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, the Holy Synod, unanimously elected on February 9 Branitsa Bishop ...

SOFIA, March 14. /TASS/. Patriarch Neophyte, or Neofit, of Bulgaria has died at the age of 78, the Bulgarian Patriarchate said. "After a protracted illness, His Holiness Patriarch of Bulgaria and ...

Orthodox Christians in Bulgaria are observing the Day of Saint Haralambos, the patron saint of beekeepers. The traditional ...

TASS/. The Bulgarian authorities have decided to expel the dean of the Sofia Representation of the Russian Orthodox Church, Archimandrite Vassian, from the country, the Russian Embassy in Bulgaria ...

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — 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.

Leaders of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, which includes about 80% of Bulgarians, condemned the ECHR ruling and called on the government not to give in. Bulgaria’s constitution explicitly ...

Orthodox priests sing and pray during a mass for the 'sanctification of honey' around honey jars with candles arranged in ...