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The Orthodox Holy Synod said Wednesday in a statement that the patriarch had been hospitalized for four months for lung ailments. The Holy Synod of 15 senior clergy will choose an interim patriarch until a larger church council picks Patriarch Neophyte’s successor within the next four months, church officials said. Orthodox Christianity is Bulgaria’s dominant religion, followed by some 85 percent of the country’s 6.7 million people.

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The exhibition is a mobile phototype exposition and it is part of a programme of the State Cultural Institute with the Foreign Minister of Bulgaria, organized jointly with the Ivan Dujcev Centre for Slavo-Byzantine Studies at Sofia University. The event was opened by Snezhana Yoveva, Director of the State Cultural Institute.

The exhibition is a mobile phototype exposition and it is part of a programme of the State Cultural Institute with the Foreign Minister of Bulgaria, organized jointly with the Ivan Dujcev Centre for Slavo-Byzantine Studies at Sofia University. The event was opened by Snezhana Yoveva, Director of the State Cultural Institute.

All week we have been warming our spirits at the sacred fire of Candlemas / Imbolc, the Celtic holiday in honour of Brighde, Irish saint and Goddess of poetry, smithcraft and healing. Imbolc falls approximately 6 weeks between the winter solstice and the spring equinox, one of the 8 festivals of the Celtic year. In the Greek Orthodox Church, February 2 is celebrated as Ypopantis, the presentation of Jesus at the Temple, 40 days after his birth, in accordance with Mosaic law. This day also marks Mary’s ritual return to the world after forty days of postpartum seclusion. This practice was kno...