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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.
The Diocese of Nicopolis [b] (Latin: Dioecesis Nicopolitanus) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church, which includes the whole northern part of Bulgaria. The seat of the episcopal see is in Rousse, although the diocese is named after Nicopolis ad Istrum. The diocese is immediately subject of the Holy See. The current bishop is Strahil ...
Arnold Lunn was born in Madras, eldest son of three sons and a daughter of Sir Henry Simpson Lunn (1859–1939) and Mary Ethel, née Moore, daughter of a canon. [2] His father was firstly a Methodist minister and later founder of Lunn's Travel agency (that would become Lunn Poly), which encouraged tourism in the Swiss Alps.
United States' Mikaela Shiffrin concentrates ahead of an alpine ski, women's World Cup slalom, in Gurgl, Austria, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Gabriele Facciotti)
Albert Popov gave Bulgaria’s ski team its first World Cup victory in 45 years by triumphing in a slalom on Wednesday as four of the favorites skied out of the night race in Madonna Di Campiglio.
Brignone beat runner-up Alice Robinson of New Zealand by 0.40 seconds, eight days after they also finished 1-2 in the GS at the worlds. Robinson remained in the lead of the discipline standings.
History plaque on the church. The origins of the church lie in the chapel established in the 1730s at the Portuguese Embassy on 24 Golden Square.At this time, with the English Penal Laws in force, most Roman Catholic chapels existed under the protection, and within the precincts, of foreign embassies. [1]
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.