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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.
Petar Bogdan Bakshev or Petar Bogdan (Bulgarian: Петър Богдан Бакшев; 1601–1674) was an archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church in Bulgaria, historian and a key Bulgarian National Revival figure. Petar Bogdan restored the Catholic hierarchy. He is most famous for being the author of the first Bulgarian history. [1] [2]
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.
The Banat Bulgarian Roman Catholic church in Bardarski Geran, Bulgaria The Roman Catholic Church in Vinga, Romania The Roman Catholic Church in Ivanovo, Serbia. In 1963 was estimated that approximately lived 18,000 Banat Bulgarians in Banat, of which 12,000 in Romanian, and 6,000 in Serbian part of the region.
In 1896, Passionist Petar Jurovic opened a Catholic private German-French school in Vidin. The number of parishioners is in decline. In 1922, 200 Catholics lived in Vidin. After 20 years 50 remained. [2] At that time, the parish priest was the Hungarian Father Hruza. [1] and a small Catholic church operated in the city. [3]
When it became obvious that Joseph Sokolsky will not be returning from Russia, one of his closest associates - Bulgarian Byzantine-Catholic priest Raphael Popov was recognized in 1864 as "Patriarchal Vicar and popular leader of the Bulgarians united with the Roman Catholic Church" by the Ottoman authorities. On March 28, 1865 he was appointed ...
In the 16th and the 17th centuries Roman Catholic missionaries converted a small number of Bulgarian Paulicians in the districts of Plovdiv and Svishtov to Roman Catholicism. Nowadays there are some 40,000 Roman Catholic Bulgarians in Bulgaria, additional 10,000 in the Banat in Romania and up to 100,000 people of Bulgarian ancestry in South ...
"Saint Joseph" is the largest Catholic cathedral in Bulgaria has 350 seats and can hold up to 1,000 worshipers. The cathedral is 23 metres long, 15 metres wide is, is 19 metres high main body of the building with a roof height of 23 metres and the tower is equipped with four electronically operated bells, is 33 metres high.