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influential bulgarians made to rome in 1859 1861 in the hope that union with rome would gain their church the freedom they felt constantinople was denying them the leading figure of the uniat movement was the bulgarian merchant dragan tsankov who had the support of catholic france he published the newspaper bulgaria in constantinople in which he advocated a union with the pope it criticized russia for its negative stance on the bulgarian church question and published historical documents on the good connections between the catholic church and the bulgarian kings in medieval times the first uniat movement originated in two centers kukush and constantinople 3 in 1859 kukush citizens wrote a letter to the pope in which they acknowledged his administrative and spiritual leadership in return they demanded that no changes should be introduced to their eastern rites of worship and that they would be the ones to choose their bishops and lower clergy with the approval of the pope the letter stated that the teachers at the church schools are to be chosen by the domestic clergy and the education is to be pursued in the bulgarian language and its national alphabet in 1861 archimandrite joseph sokolsky led a delegation to rome where he was received by pope pius ix the pope ordained him as the archbishop for bulgarian catholics of the byzantine rite on 8 april 1861 the new archbishop was associated with the bulgarian nationalist cause however we was recognized in his new capacity by the sublime porte however he was almost immediately removed on a russian ship and held in kiev for the remainder of his life by june 1861 there was no one in constantinople who could perform the bulgarian uniate services this situation was not remedied until 1863 when raphael popov was elected as bishop centered in adrianople at the same year a bulgarian uniate gymnasium at adrianople was founded 4 the first uniat movement spread into several towns and villages in macedonia and thrace but they did not yield any concrete results the reasons for the failure of the first uniat movement could be found in the political character of the movements rather than in the population s deep religious devotion the people demanded its domestic clergy they received it first through the patriarchate and then through the bulgarian exarchate which was finally established in 1870 second uniat movement edit the second uniat movement started again in kukush in 1874 nil izvorov the bulgarian orthodox bishop of kukush wrote a letter to the bulgarian uniat bishop in constantinople raphael popov saying that the will of the people in macedonia was to join the bulgarian uniat church after that he sent a letter to the pope as well asking him for a union his attempt of a union was successful and in the same year he held services in his new capacity of a uniat catholic bishop there are several interpretations of the reasons behind this union some authors stress izvorov s personal motivation to go for a union two months after izvorov arrived in kukush as an orthodox bishop he was called back to constantinople by the patriarchate and the russian diplomatic services looking for a way to remain in macedonia he first approached some anglican missionaries but he did not get any support from them only after that he turned to the lazarists in salonica and then to bishop popov in constantinople another researchers argued that izvorov was not happy with his own position in the exarchate but added that the population too was not happy with the division of the local dioceses by the patriarchate and the bulgarian exarchate and mistrusted both of them that is why the ordinary people had an interest to join the catholic church historical sources show that the ottoman government banned izvorov from entering kukush for several years bishop popov took over his duties in kukush but in 1876 he died under unknown circumstances in the same year izvorov was promoted to be the administering bishop of all uniat bulgarians directly subordinated to the apostolic delegate in constantinople after that he resumed his duties in macedonia that year he became active once again in central macedonia based at kukush in one five year period there were 57 catholic villages whilst the bulgarian uniate schools in the vilayet of thessaloniki reached 64 including the bulgarian uniate gymnasium at thessaloniki 5 several years later in 1883 he was promoted to archbishop of all uniat bulgarians and went to constantinople as of 1883 there were already two apostolic vicars bishop michail petkov in adrianople was responsible to thrace and bishop lazar mladenov in salonica to macedonia both subordinated to the archbishop nil izvorov in constantinople earlier on the followers of catholicism of the eastern rites had a joint hierarchy in 1884 izvorov went back to the bulgarian orthodox church the personality of bishop mladenov was not less controversial than that of bishop izvorov after the high porte cancelled his accreditation as bishop on the demand of the french consul in salonica in 1894 mladenov also turned to the bulgarian exarchate then he returned to the uniate church nevertheless this was the end of his career he stayed in a monastery until the end of his life third uniat movement edit by the end of the 19th century the bulgarian greek catholic church in macedonia was based in kukush with epiphany shanov as bishop after mladenov s excommunication in 1895 the other vicariat was that of the thrace it was led by mihail mirov who was proclaimed as also administering bishop of all uniat bulgarians with sead in constantinople as of 1907 in 1893 the internal macedonian adrianople revolutionary organization emerged as the main bulgarian factor in the macedonian and thracian lands in the late 1890s imaro was extremely anti catholic on its part the catholic church did not support imaro because it was against any revolutionary movements in the ottoman empire this attitude changed for a short period of time after the 1903 ilinden preobrazhenie uprising the ottoman terror following the failure of the uprising prompted the bulgarian exarchate and the bulgarian greek catholic church alike to embark on the same mission helping the people to cope with the tragedy however this rapprochement was short lived after 1903 the imaro revolutionaries and the exarchate continued to act against the catholic church the immediate effect of the partition of the ottoman empire during the balkan wars was the anti bulgarian campaign in areas under serbian and greek rule the serbians expelled bulgarian churchmen the greeks burned kukush the center of bulgarian politics and culture bulgarian language was prohibited and its surreptitious use whenever detected was ridiculed or punished 6 the ottomans managed to keep the adrianople region where the whole thracian bulgarian population was put to total ethnic cleansing by the young turks army 7 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 north macedonia and turkey to what is now bulgaria the bulgarian greek catholic church since the first world war edit this section needs more citations please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources unsourced material may be challenged and removed find sources bulgarian greek catholic church news newspapers books scholar jstor june 2026 learn how and when to remove this message in 1926 an apostolic exarchate was established in sofia for the pastoral care of the byzantine catholics in bulgaria this was arranged largely with the help of archbishop angelo roncalli the future pope john xxiii who in 1925 was named apostolic visitator and later apostolic delegate for bulgaria where he stayed until 1934 during the second world war bulgaria occupied the bigger part of macedonia and western thrace in 1941 the uniat parishes went under the jurisdiction of the apostolic exarchate in sofia many of the clergymen and the euharistinki sisters who had found refuge in bulgaria earlier returned to macedonia and thrace and resumed their work until the end of the war when bulgaria lost these territories again unlike other communist regimes in eastern europe the communist government that took power in bulgaria after world war ii did not abolish the byzantine catholic church but did subject it to severe religious persecution which is said to have been somewhat eased after the election of pope john xxiii on 28 october 1958 the church was elevated from an apostolic exarchate to a full eparchy by pope francis on 12 october 2019 8 primates edit apostolic vicariate of the bulgarians 1860 1883 apostolicus vicariatus bulgarorum archbishop joseph sokolsky 14 april 1861 18 june 1861 archimandrite parish priest petar arabadzhiysky 1861 1863 bishop raphael popov 14 march 1864 18 november 1865 as an apostolic administrator 19 november 1865 23 february 1876 as a bishop bishop nil izvorov 21 september 1876 6 april 1883 constantinople archdiocese of the bulgarians 1883 1926 archidioecesis constantinopolitanus bulgarorum archbishop nil izvorov 7 april 1883 3 july 1895 archbishop michael mirov 4 february 1907 17 august 1923 macedonian apostolic vicariate of the bulgarians centered in thessaloniki 1883 1926 apostolicus vicariatus macedoniaensis bulgarorum bishop lazar mladenov 12 june 1883 31 october 1894 bishop epiphanius shanov 23 july 1895 17 december 1921 archimandrite christophor kondov 17 december 1921 6 january 1924 apostolic administrator archimandrite josaphat kozarov 20 february 1924 3 november 1925 apostolic pro administrator thrace apostolic vicariate of the bulgarians centered in adrianople 1883 1926 apostolicus vicariatus thraciae bulgarorum bishop michael petkov 7 april 1883 27 may 1921 archimandrite christophor kondov 25 june 1921 6 january 1924 apostolic administrator archimandrite josaphat kozarov 20 february 1924 3 november 1925 apostolic pro administrator exarch kiril kurtev 23 september 1925 24 july 1926 apostolic administrator sophian apostolic exarchate 1926 2019 bishop kiril kurtev 25 july 1926 30 may 1941 bishop ivan garufalov 6 july 1942 7 august 1951 bishop kiril kurtev 7 august 1951 9 march 1971 archbishop metodi stratiev 9 march 1971 5 september 1995 bishop christo proykov 5 september 1995 11 october 2019 sophian eparchy of saint john the 23rd since 2019 bishop christo proykov 11 october 2019 8 april 2024 bishop petko valov since 8 april 2024 structure edit at the end of 2004 the apostolic exarchate of sofia numbered 10 000 catholics in 21 parishes under the care of five diocesan and sixteen religious priests with 17 other male religious and 41 female religious the cathedral church of the eparchy is the cathedral of the dormition катедрала успение богородично in bulgaria s capital sofia the incumbent eparch is christo proykov like other eastern catholic churches the bulgarian byzantine catholic church ordains married men to the priesthood 9 see also edit bulgarian catholic apostolic vicariate of thrace bulgarian catholic apostolic vicariate of macedonia bulgarian catholic apostolic vicariate of constantinople bulgarian orthodox church notes edit bulgarian църква на съединените с рим българи latin ecclesiae graecae catholico bulgarica sometimes called in reference to its byzantine rite the bulgarian byzantine catholic church references edit john fine the early medieval balkans p 118 119 c tin c giurescu dinu c giurescu istoria românilor din cele mai vechi timpuri până astăzi bucharest 1975 p 184 bulgaria oxford history of modern europe r j crampton oxford university press 2007 isbn 0 19 820514 7 p 74 77 българите в най източната част на балканския полуостров източна тракия димитър войников 2 спомен от детството коралов и сие 2009 г national claims conflicts and developments in macedonia 1870 1912 by basil c gounaris p 186 ivo banac the macedoine archived 2024 02 23 at the wayback machine in the national 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