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	Bulgarian Orthodox Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Under the presidency of Patriarch German II of Constantinople and with the consent of all Eastern Patriarchs, the council confirmed the Patriarchal dignity of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and consecrated the Bulgarian archbishop German Patriarch.
		The Bulgarian diocese was subordinated to the Patriarchate of Constantinople.
		In 1945 the schism was lifted and the Patriarch of Constantinople recognised the autocephaly of the Bulgarian Church.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bulgarian_Orthodox (2897 words)

	Bulgarians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bulgarian cultural influence was especially strong in Wallachia and Moldova where the Cyrillic alphabet was used until 1860, while Slavonic was the official language of the princely chancellery and of the church until the end of 17th century, much as Latin in Western Europe.
		The Bulgarian language is also sometimes mutually intelligible with Russian on account of the influence which Russian has had on the development of Modern Bulgarian since 1878 as well as the earlier effect of Old Bulgarian on the development of Old Russian.
		In the 16th and the 17th century Roman Catholic missionaries converted the Bulgarian Paulicians in the districts of Plovdiv and Svishtov to Roman Catholicism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bulgarians (2157 words)

	Bulgarian Orthodox Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		During its early period the Bulgarian patriarch recognised the authority of both the Roman pope and the patriarch of Constantinople.
		During the Ottoman era the Bulgarian church was placed under the jurisdiction of the patriarch of Constantinople.
		In 1870 the Bulgarian church was made autocephalous by Sultan Abdul Aziz, a move which led Constantinople to excommunicate the Bulgarian church.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/christ/east/bulgorth.html (198 words)

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		In 1393 the Bulgarian State was destroyed by the Ottoman invasion of Europe and the Bulgarian lands were included within the borders of the enormous Empire.
		At the time when the Ribniyat Boukvar (the first Bulgarian ABC text-book) was published, the Bulgarian icon painters were involved in the fate of their people, carried away by the new revolutionary ideas of the West and they themselves took part in the struggle for the independence of the Church and for political freedom.
		The Bulgarian icon is the revelation of the Bulgarian people, revealing the purest aspects of their spiritual feelings to the world.
	www.kolumbus.fi /boykor/orthodoxgaleri.htm (1010 words)

	Bulgaria - RELIGION
		The Bulgarian Orthodox Church, which played a crucial role in preserving Bulgarian culture during the Ottoman occupation, remained central to the sense of Bulgarian nationhood even under the postwar communist regimes.
		Bulgarian Muslims were subject to particular persecution in the later years of the Zhivkov regime.
		In 1204 the Bulgarian Tsar Kaloian (1197-1207) formed a short-lived union between the Roman Catholic Church and the Bulgarian Orthodox Church as a political tactic to balance the religious power of the Byzantine Empire.
	countrystudies.us /bulgaria/26.htm (2148 words)

	CHAPTER X (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Orthodox theology is first of all a traditionally apprehended practice, a spiritual realization, and not doctrinal instruction; however, this does not at all mean that it is irrational, illogical, chaotic, or comprised of random cases.
		The Bulgarian Church eventually adopted the view that its chance for survival lay in closer relations with the Bulgarian state that had emerged after the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78, and the politicians and ideologists of the Third Bulgarian Kingdom, almost without exception, fostered its consolidation.
		Bulgarian nationalism is rooted rather in a mass complex of cultural inferiority that is intensified precisely in the circumstances of the open society, or rather semi-open society, that Bulgaria has now become.
	www.crvp.org /book/Series04/IVA-12/chapter_x.htm (3334 words)

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		In the beginning the Bulgarian church was an autonomous archbishopric under the jurisdiction of the Constantinople patriarchy.
		Later on, at an Orthodox Church council in the town of Lampsak, Asia Minor, in 1235, the patriarchy status of the Bulgarian church was restored.
		The Bulgarian exarchate emerged as the one church and political entity which sublimated the quintessence of the religious and patriotic in the embattled Bulgarian people, inspiring it with the bravery and courage to strive for national freedom.
	www.bulgarischekirche.at /en/geschichte.htm (1761 words)

	BULGARIAN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHURCH NEWS by BULGARIAN DIOCESE of WESTERN and CENTRAL EUROPE
		Bulgarian Orthodox Metropolit Simeon of Western- and Central Europe was joined by the protosyncel of the Bulgarian Orthodox Diocese of Western- and Central Europe Archimandrite TICHON and the members of the delegation from Bulgaria: Metropolitan KALINIK of Vraza,.
		As the Bulgarian Orthodox Church sees it the program for this visit should be prepared by a joint commision of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church in Bulgaria "working synchronized with the Bulgarian Government to give a good example of the hospitality of the Bulgarian People and the Bulgarian Church.
		The Bulgarian Orthodox Church is the first-born and favourite daughter of the Oecumenical Patriarchate.
	www.rilaeu.com /news1.htm (4373 words)

	Religion, Culture, Education and Science.
		The Bulgarian diocese was subordinated to the Constantinople Patriarchate.
		The Statute of the Bulgarian Exarchate was adopted.
		With the help of the Orthodox Sister-Churches (especially the Russian one), and thanks to the favorable attitude of the Bulgarian Government, on February 22, 1945 the schism was lifted, which for the several decades had impeded the normal inter-church relation of the Exarchate.
	mixile.tripod.com /MacedoniaBulgaria/id14.html (7384 words)

	History part III
		Bulgarian immigration to the United States had increased greatly after 1903 with most of the Bulgarian Orthodox Christians attending Russian Orthodox churches.
		The Communist government of Russia, culminating with the deposing of the Metropolitan in 1927, halted the progress of the Orthodox church in the Ukraine.
		The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of America held its first convention in 193 1 - Congregations consisting of former Unites were added to the Ukrainian Orthodox parishes and the Very Reverend Joseph Zuk was chosen as 15ishopelect of the American Diocese in July, 19 3 2.
	holytrinity-la.org /engl/pages/general/hist3.html (6569 words)

	Bulgarian
		The Bulgarian Orthodox Church is being torn by an internal dispute that has seen priests punching each other, bishops offering competing Eucharists, and theology students staging sit-ins.
		In the view of the new democratic government, the Orthodox hierarchy is one of the last structures of the former communist regime.
		Metropolitan Pimen, meanwhile, is being denounced as a crazed man determined to destroy the unity of the Bulgarian church.
	www.exorthodoxforchrist.com /bulgarian.htm (469 words)

	Bulgarian Art and Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Catholic and Orthodox churches were originally united, but they parted in the eleventh century, when they differed over several points of doctrine, including the supreme authority of the pope, which Orthodox Christians reject.
		The Orthodox Church is the dominant form of Christianity in much of Eastern Europe.
		The recognition of the autocephalous Bulgarian Patriarchate by the Patriarchate of Constantinople in 927 AD makes the Bulgarian Orthodox Church the oldest autocephalous Orthodox Church in the world after the four Eastern Patriarchates: those of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem.
	www.artshop-bg.com /religion.html (621 words)

	Bulgarian Church
		Under Ottoman rule, Bulgarian Orthodox Christians, who twice before had had their own Patriarchate, were gradually brought under the control of ethnic Greek bishops as part of a general Hellenization of their ecclesial life.
		In the 19th century, when a struggle to obtain ecclesiastical independence from the Ecumenical Patriarchate was gaining momentum, some influential Bulgarian Orthodox in Constantinople began to consider union with Rome as a solution to their problem.
		The Bulgarian Byzantine Catholic Church suffered much in the early years of communist rule: the Byzantine Catholic bishop died under mysterious circumstances in 1951 and many of its priests were imprisoned.
	www.faswebdesign.com /ECPA/Byzantine/Bulgarian.html (602 words)

	Catholic World News : Bulgarian Orthodox Given use of Roman Parish Church
		Cyril and Methodius, the patrons of the Bulgarian Church.
		The delegation from the Bulgarian Orthodox Church that will visit Rome to inaugurate the new church includes six metropolitans, and the Archimandrite Tichon, the patriarchal vicar of the Bulgarian Church for western and central Europe.
		Each year, the Bulgarian church organizes such a pilgrimage, culminating with the celebration of the divine liturgy at the tomb of St. Cyril, which is located in the Roman basilica of St. Clement.
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=22503 (566 words)

	Dhimmi Watch: Bulgarian Orthodox Church: Don't violate religious feelings, respect freedom of choice
		The Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church made a statement in relation to the published cartoons of the prophet Mohammad, which are blasphemous for the Islam.
		The head of the Bulgarian orthodox church is a colonel in those same secret services and everyone knows that.
		The shortcomings of the Bulgarian communist orthodox church are countless...
	www.jihadwatch.org /dhimmiwatch/archives/010072.php (1690 words)

	Orthodox Christian Links
		African Orthodox Church - Descriptions the holdings of the library of Pitts Emory University on Daniel William Alexander, bishop of the African Orthodox Church of South Africa.
		Orthodox Actionline - A ministry outreach of the field education department of Holy Cross Orthodox School of Theology.
		Orthodox Brotherhood of St. Archangel - Orthodox Brotherhood of St. Archangel Michael is a fellowship of devout laymen based in Minsk, the City of the Republic of Belarus E-mail to:
	www.geocities.com /Athens/7734/orthlink.htm (4116 words)

	St. Michael's Orthodox School - Home
		St. Michael’s is a small Orthodox Christian elementary school located on the grounds of Holy Dormition Orthodox Church in Santa Rosa, CA.
		The beauty and the fulness of Orthodox liturgical life is an ongoing inspiration.
		Although we are obviously an Orthodox Christian school, not all the students are Orthodox.
	www.stmichaelschool.us (470 words)

	Bishop Photios of Triaditsa and the Old Calendarist Church of Bulgaria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The spiritual founder of the Bulgarian Old-Calendarist Orthodox Church was Archbishop Seraphim (Sobolev)-the well-known theologion, profound expert on the works of the Holy Fathers, the fiery defender of holy Orthodoxy.
		The Bulgarian clergy, and even the episcopate, proved to be completely unprepared for this opposition to the calendar innovation, and the people, suspecting something wrong, began to murmur silently.
		Orthodox Bulgarians suffer profoundly from the scandal taking place in the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, and neophytes are scandalized and even lose faith.
	www.roca.org /oa/132/132g.htm (3490 words)

	Bulgarian Easter Traditions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The bright red colored egg is the symbol of Easter (or Pascha) for the Orthodox Christians all over the world.
		Then people take turns tapping their egg against the eggs of others, and the person who ends up with the last unbroken egg is believed to have a year of good luck.
		The traditional Orthodox Paschal greeting is: "Christ is Risen!" The answer is: "Indeed He is Risen".
	www.b-info.com /places/Bulgaria/Easter (713 words)

	OrthodoxyToday.org Blog » Ecumenical Patriarch Defends Himself
		The Bulgarians repaid the Greeks during World War II by committing many atrocities and depredations during their brutal occupation of northern Greece on behalf of their Nazi allies.
		Later the Bulgarians gave aid and support to Greek Communist forces during the Greek Civil War, in return for, it was claimed by Greeks, for a measure of Bulgarian control over Macedonia and Thrace.
		The Bulgarians are ethnically very close to the Slavic population of the Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), whose declaration of independence drew a very loud protest and opposition from Greeks.
	www.orthodoxytoday.org /blog?p=274 (2376 words)

	THE OFFICIAL WEB-SITE OF THE BULGARIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH.
		THE OFFICIAL WEB-SITE OF THE BULGARIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH.
		The Bulgarian version is written in Cyrillic and therefore you must have a Cyrillic font installed in your system.
		The next step to follow will be the configuration of the web browser, where you will need to change the proportional font in the preferences menu to the Cyrillic font that you have installed, in order to see the Cyrillic alphabet.
	bulch.tripod.com /boc/mainpage.htm (79 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Pope moves to heal Bulgaria wounds
		Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy welcomed the statement, saying his country had been fighting to clear its name for 20 years.
		The pontiff also prayed in Sofia's Orthodox Cathedral of St Alexander Nevsky and had a breakthrough meeting with the head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.
		With Orthodox Churches fearing that the Vatican is trying to encroach upon their flocks, Patriarch Maxim had until recently refused to meet Pope John Paul.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/2005926.stm (580 words)

	Catholic World News : Bulgarian Trip For Pope Studied For 2002
		The president of the Bulgarian episcopal conference, and apostolic exarch for Catholics of the Byzantine-Slavic rite, Bishop Christo Proykov, confirmed this possibility with the Rome-based news agency I Media, stressing the importance of a pontifical visit to a country with an Orthodox majority.
		The situation between Catholics and Orthodox "improves little by little," said Bishop Proykov, stressing that "just a few months ago, a visit by the Pope was unthinkable." For him, these signs of relaxation foresee an opening by the Orthodox Church to a visit by the Pope.
		The beatification of three Bulgarian Assumptionist priests shot on November 11, 1952 at the time of persecutions against Catholics could be included on the trip.
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=15152 (769 words)

	Orthodox Monasteries and Monasticism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Athos is the center of Eastern Orthodox monasticism.
		Huntington, WV - The hermitage is an English speaking monastery for men under the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.
		Presentation of the Virgin Mary Orthodox Monastery - Canton, OH - Orthodox Church in America.
	aggreen.net /monasteries/monastic.html (1122 words)

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