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Saint Sophia Basilica Church (5th–6th century), Nesebar. The Bulgarian Orthodox Church has its origin in the flourishing Christian communities and churches established in Southeast Europe as early as the first centuries of the Christian era. Christianity was brought to the Thracian lands by the apostles Paul and Andrew in the 1st century AD ...
The Eastern Orthodox Church in Bulgaria has deep roots, extending back to the 5th and 7th centuries when the Slavs and the Bulgars, respectively, adopted Byzantine Christianity in the period of the First Bulgarian Empire (681-1018). [1] Prior to this official conversion, Christianity had spread to the region during Roman and early Byzantine times.
According to the official census of the year 2021, Christianity was the dominant religion of Bulgaria adhered to by 64.7% of the population. [1] Almost all Christians in Bulgaria are Eastern Orthodox, incorporated by the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, which was the religious belonging of 62.7% of the population in 2021. [1]
Orthodox Christianity is Bulgaria’s dominant religion, followed by some 85 percent of the country’s 6.7 million people. Patriarch Neophyte, leader of Bulgaria’s Orthodox Church, dies at 78 ...
Completed. 11th century. The Church of St Petka of the Saddlers (Bulgarian: Църква „Света Петка Самарджийска“) is a medieval Bulgarian Orthodox church in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. It is a small one-naved building partially dug into the ground located in the very centre of both the modern and the antique ...
Founded in the 10th century, Rila Monastery is regarded as one of Bulgaria's most important cultural, historical and architectural monuments and is a key tourist attraction for both Bulgaria and Southern Europe for religious tourists. In 2008 alone it attracted 900,000 visitors. [1] The monastery is depicted on the reverse of the 1 lev banknote ...
SOFIA (Reuters) - Top Orthodox Christian clergy from across Europe and Bulgaria's senior government officials gathered in Sofia's main cathedral on Sunday for the enthronement of the new patriarch ...
Europe and North America. The Boyana Church (Bulgarian: Боянска църква, Boyanska tsărkva) is a medieval Bulgarian Orthodox church situated on the outskirts of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, in the Boyana quarter. In 1979, the building was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. The east wing of the two-story church was ...