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Bulgarian Church marks 40 yrs since enthronement of Partriach Maxim
SOFIA (Itar-Tass) - Festivities began in the Bulgarian
Orthodox Church on Saturday on the occasion of the 40 years since the
enthronement -- accession to the office -- by the current ruling supreme
hierarch of the Church, Patriarch Maxim.
Heads and/or high-rank representatives of other Orthodox Churches have
arrived in the Bulgarian capital to congratulate His Holiness Maxim, whois
96 years old.
The Russian Orthodox Church is represented by Metropolitan Sergius of
Voronezh and Borisoglebsk.
"His Holiness Maxim is the oldest among the ruling hierarchs of the
national Orthodox Churches and he symbolizes living history," Metropolitan
Sergius said. "He has perfect memory and a bright mind. He kind of links
he people to this country's past, as he remembers the times before World
War II, the war year and the Sociliast period of Bulgrian history.
"Patriarch Maxim serves as a living connection between different
historical epochs and that's why he has so precious a role in the entire
Eastern Orthodox Christianity," the Russian cleric said.
"He is the carrier of the values that can only be read about in books
now," Metropolitan Sergius said. "We pray to God for his stay in good
health and for bestowing upon him the strength to continue promoting the
ideas of Orthodoxy in our difficult times."
He called His Holiness Maxim a very active and vivacious Patriarch.
A festive service was conducted Saturday in the Cathedral of St
Alexander of the Neva, the second largest church in the Balkans.
Patriarch Maxim personnally met the relics of his heavenly patron St
Maxim the Confessor that were taken to Sofia from the St Paul's monastery
on the Holy Mount Athos in Greece.
Sunday morning, His Holiness and the visiting foreign Orthodox
Christian hierarchs will take part in the festivde Holy Liturgy.
Marin Naidenov Minkov, which was the Patriarch's secular name at
birth, took the monastic vows and changed his name to Maxim at the age of
27. At the time of his election to the post of Patriarch that took place July 4, 1971, he was the Metropolitan of Lovchan.
Orthodox Church on Saturday on the occasion of the 40 years since the
enthronement -- accession to the office -- by the current ruling supreme
hierarch of the Church, Patriarch Maxim.
Heads and/or high-rank representatives of other Orthodox Churches have
arrived in the Bulgarian capital to congratulate His Holiness Maxim, whois
96 years old.
The Russian Orthodox Church is represented by Metropolitan Sergius of
Voronezh and Borisoglebsk.
"His Holiness Maxim is the oldest among the ruling hierarchs of the
national Orthodox Churches and he symbolizes living history," Metropolitan
Sergius said. "He has perfect memory and a bright mind. He kind of links
he people to this country's past, as he remembers the times before World
War II, the war year and the Sociliast period of Bulgrian history.
"Patriarch Maxim serves as a living connection between different
historical epochs and that's why he has so precious a role in the entire
Eastern Orthodox Christianity," the Russian cleric said.
"He is the carrier of the values that can only be read about in books
now," Metropolitan Sergius said. "We pray to God for his stay in good
health and for bestowing upon him the strength to continue promoting the
ideas of Orthodoxy in our difficult times."
He called His Holiness Maxim a very active and vivacious Patriarch.
A festive service was conducted Saturday in the Cathedral of St
Alexander of the Neva, the second largest church in the Balkans.
Patriarch Maxim personnally met the relics of his heavenly patron St
Maxim the Confessor that were taken to Sofia from the St Paul's monastery
on the Holy Mount Athos in Greece.
Sunday morning, His Holiness and the visiting foreign Orthodox
Christian hierarchs will take part in the festivde Holy Liturgy.
Marin Naidenov Minkov, which was the Patriarch's secular name at
birth, took the monastic vows and changed his name to Maxim at the age of
27. At the time of his election to the post of Patriarch that took place July 4, 1971, he was the Metropolitan of Lovchan.
