Bulgarian Orthodox Church
Orthodox autocephalous church
Key facts
- Type
- Autocephaly
- Classification
- Christian
- Orientation
- Eastern Orthodox
- Scripture
- Septuagint New Testament
- Theology
- Eastern Orthodox theology
- Primate
- Daniil
- Priests
- 2,000
- Parishes
- 2,600
- Language
- Bulgarian and Old Church Slavonic (Old Bulgarian)
- Liturgy
- Byzantine Rite
- Headquarters
- Saint Alexander Nevsky Cathedral , Sofia , Bulgaria
- Territory
- Bulgaria
- Possessions
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The Bulgarian Orthodox Church (Bulgarian: Българска православна църква, romanized: Bûlgarska pravoslavna cûrkva), legally the Patriarchate of Bulgaria (Bulgarian: Българска патриаршия, romanized: Bûlgarska patriarshiya), is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox jurisdiction based in Bulgaria. It is the first medieval recognised patriarchate outside the Pentarchy and the oldest Slavic Orthodox church, with some 6 million members in Bulgaria and between 1.5 and 2 million members in a number of other European countries, Asia, the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand. It was recognized as autocephalous in 1945 by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.
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