site.btaBTA to Donate Archival News and Photos to Athonite Zograf Monastery
The Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) will donate its archive of news and photographs related to the Zograf Monastery on Mount Athos to the monastery's library. This transpired as BTA Director General Kiril Valchev met with the newly elected hegumen of the monastery, Hieromonk Gabriel, who will be enthroned on May 11.
The archive will include news bulletins and photographs from 1898 to the present and will be delivered in both paper and digital format on November 16, the monastery's autumn feast day of St. George.
Valchev assured the hegumen that BTA will continue to distribute news from the Zograf Monastery for use by all media and will consistently cover important events from the monastery.
He also presented the monastery’s library with three volumes published for BTA’s 125th anniversary, containing the agency’s history, testimonies, and archival news from 1898–2023. Among them are reports on the relocation of the Bulgarian Exarchate to Sofia in 1913, the elevation of the Church to a Patriarchate in 1953, and the election of Patriarch Neophyte in 2013.
The library also received a publication about the 16th World Meeting of Bulgarian Media, organized by BTA at the Rila Monastery in 2021.
Additionally, Valchev gifted Hieromonk Gabriel a commemorative BTA stamp and medal issued for the news agency’s 125th anniversary.
Valchev arrived at Zograf with Bishop Gerasim, Secretary General of the Holy Synod, as part of a Bulgarian delegation for the St. George Day celebrations. The delegation was led by Deputy Prime Minister Atanas Zafirov and included several members of parliament and officials, along with many Bulgarian pilgrims who participated in the religious services and the procession with the icon of St. George on May 5 and 6.
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