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After September 9, 1944, foreign clergy were expelled from Bulgaria and due to the lack of a priest (?), the parish ceased to exist. In 2011, 271 people from Vidin self-identified as Catholics. On May 7, 2016, in the city, the bishop of the Nikopol Diocese, Petko Hristov, proclaimed the resumption of the parish.
However, Christianity has been on the decline since the early 1990s, the number of Bulgarian Christians having decreased in both absolute number and percentage from around 7,3 million or 86.6% of the population in the census of 1992 to 4,2 million, or the aforementioned 64.7%, in 2021; most of the decline has been in the Bulgarian Orthodox ...
The largest Catholic Bulgarian town is Rakovski in Plovdiv Province. Ethnic Bulgarian Catholics known as the Banat Bulgarians also inhabit the Central European region of the Banat. Their number is unofficially estimated at 12,000, with 6,500 Banat Bulgarians in the Romanian part of the region. Bulgarian Catholics are descendants of three groups.
The Church of Saint George (Bulgarian: Ротонда „Свети Георги“, romanized: Rotonda "Sveti Georgi") is a Late Antique red brick rotunda in Sofia, Bulgaria. Built in the early 4th century as Roman baths , it became a church inside the walls of Serdica, capital of ancient Dacia Mediterranea during the Roman Empire and ...
About 80% of the 6.8 million-strong Bulgarian population are Orthodox Christians. The reputation of the country's Orthodox Church was damaged after a history commission in January 2012 showed that ...
The Christianization of Bulgaria was the process by which 9th-century medieval Bulgaria converted to Christianity.It reflected the need of unity within the religiously divided Bulgarian state as well as the need for equal acceptance on the international stage in Christian Europe.
Archaeological excavation is continuing to reveal more remains and many Roman remains are visible: the best-preserved and tallest Roman city walls anywhere, not only in Bulgaria; thermal baths and nymphaeum; an amphitheatre; the barracks of the Roman garrison; the tomb of a wealthy Roman; the foundations of some of the oldest churches in Bulgaria.
Trilingual (Latin, Bulgarian, Greek) plaque with the Edict in front of the St. Sofia Church, Sofia, Bulgaria. The Edict of Serdica, also called Edict of Toleration by Galerius, [1] [2] [3] was issued in 311 in Serdica (now Sofia, Bulgaria) by Roman Emperor Galerius. It officially ended the Diocletianic Persecution of Christianity in the Eastern ...