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unusual facts about Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church


Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church

As a result of the 1912-1913 Balkan Wars and the 1914-1918 First World War, many Bulgarians fled from the territories of present-day Greece, Republic of Macedonia and Turkey to what is now Bulgaria.


Alexander Deubner

Ordained a priest in Constantinople in 1926 by Bishop Michael Mirov, Exarch of the Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church and sent to work with Russian immigrants in the south of France, under the leadership of the priest Lev Gillet, OSB, serving in the House for Russian children in Nice.

Roman Catholicism in Bulgaria

As an entity, the Catholic Church consists of two dioceses in Bulgaria, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sofia and Plovdiv with the Seat in Plovdiv and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nikopol with the Seat in Rouse, for those of the Latin Rite, and an exarchate with its seat in Sofia for those of the Eastern Rite.


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