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In Ottoman Bulgaria (1396–1878), like elsewhere in the Ottoman Empire, populations were classified according to the millet (approximately "religious nation") system by religion rather than by ethnicity, and therefore Bulgarian Orthodox Christians were grouped together with Orthodox Christians of other ethnicities in the so-called Rum Millet ...
History of Bulgaria and the Bulgarian Orthodox Church according to the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913). A short history of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church by CNEWA, the papal agency for humanitarian and pastoral support; The Bulgarian Orthodox Church according to Overview of World Religions; Article about the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and Religion ...
Bulgaria is officially a secular nation and the Constitution guarantees the free exercise of religion but designates Orthodoxy as a "traditional" religion. In the 2001 census, 82.6% Bulgarians declared themselves Orthodox Christians , 12.2% Muslim, 1.2% other Christian denominations, 4% other religions ( Buddhism , Taoism , Hinduism , Judaism ...
The Slavic language was officialized at the same time with Christianity, so Slavic paganism has never been a state religion of Bulgaria or more influential than Tengriism. Most of Bulgarian land lack any pagan archeology left from the Bulgars, despite early Christianization and that during most of the pagan period medieval Bulgarian borders ...
Bulgaria religion-related lists (1 C, 2 P) + Bulgarian people by religion (5 C) C. Christianity in Bulgaria (13 C, 6 P) H. History of religion in Bulgaria (1 C) I.
It was the prevailing religion of the Göktürks, Xianbei, Bulgars, Xiongnu, Yeniseian and Mongolic peoples and Huns, as well as the state religion of several medieval states such as the First Turkic Khaganate, the Western Turkic Khaganate, the Eastern Turkic Khaganate, Old Great Bulgaria, the First Bulgarian Empire, Volga Bulgaria, Khazaria ...
Bulgarian orthodox cross, Sveta Sofia Church. 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]
Bulgarian Muslims do not represent a homogenous community and have a multitude of ethnic and religious identities. A clear majority of them (127,350 [ 7 ] according to the latest census in 2001) declare themselves to be ethnic Bulgarians of Islamic faith.