Church leader's election
site.btaElection Begins; Ecumenical Patriarch and Foreign Delegations to Attend Enthronement
Church dignitaries pay respects at the grave of Patriarch Neophyte just outside the Metropolitan Cathedral of St Nedelya as the Bulgarian Orthodox Church elects its new leader, Sofia, June 30, 2024 (BTA Photo)
Metropolitan Grigorii of Vratsa, who is the interim leader of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church (BOC), and all other BOC diocesan metropolitans and bishops led the Election Council delegates from the Palace of the Holy Synod over to the Academic Hall of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in downtown Sofia on Sunday morning. There, Grigorii opened the Election Council proceedings with a short prayer. An Election Bureau was set up.
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