Patriarch of Bulgaria attended academic session marking key national anniversaries - EUROPE SAYS

Patriarch of Bulgaria attended academic session marking key national anniversaries - EUROPE SAYS

On May 3, the “Bishop Konstantin of Preslav” Shumen University became the center of a plenary academic session marking 1,160 years since the baptism of the

Patriarchal Divine Liturgy in Varna marks 1160 years since the Baptism of Bulgarian people | Orthodox Times (en)

On the occasion of the 1,160th anniversary of the baptism of the Bulgarian people and the 1,170th anniversary of the creation of the Bulgarian alphabet and Slavic literature, Bishop Gerasim of Melnik, Secretary General of the Holy Synod, read a patriarchal and synodal message during a Synodal Divine Liturgy held at the Cathedral of the Dormition of the Theotokos in Varna. “Our independent Orthodox Church, our alphabet, our written tradition, our…