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Bulgarian Church Elects New Patriarch

Thursday, February 28, 2013

His Eminence, Metropolitan Neofit of Ruse, was elected Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Bulgaria at a meeting of the Holy Synod on Sunday, February 24, 2013. He succeeds His Holiness, the late Patriarch Maxim of Bulgaria, who fell asleep in the Lord in November 2012. The enthronement was held at St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia.

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