Heavy is the cross that God and our Holy Church are giving me today, but in God's words I trust and ask him for strength for when I am weak, then am I strong, Bulgaria's new patriarch said. Patriarch ...

SOFIA, Bulgaria – Metropolitan Neofit of Ruse was elected Sunday as the new spiritual leader of Bulgaria's Orthodox Christians amid social unrest threatening to throw the Balkan country in a serious ...

Ruse Metropolitan Neofit has been elected Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church by the Holy Synod's national church council. Neofit prevailed over two other candidates at runoff. Neofit collected ...

This photograph shows a monument and a replica of a castle in the Historical Park of the village of Neofit Rilski, North-East Bulgaria Neofit Rilski, North-East Bulgaria, on October 10, 2024.

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) - Metropolitan Neofit of Ruse was elected Sunday as the new spiritual leader of Bulgaria's Orthodox Christians amid social unrest threatening to throw the Balkan country in a ...