Bulgarian Orthodox Diocese of Western and Central Europe

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The Bulgarian Orthodox Diocese of Western and Central Europe (proper name: Bulgarian Orthodox Diocese of Western and Central Europe ) is a foreign diocese of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church . Its headquarters are in Berlin and Budapest . The founder of the diocese is Metropolitan Simeon , the current Metropolitan is Antonij .

The St. Boris the Baptist Cathedral in Berlin

There are also parishes, churches and priests in France , Spain , Austria , Switzerland , Italy , Portugal , Great Britain , Belgium , the Netherlands , Luxembourg , Norway , Sweden , the Czech Republic and Malta .

In 2010 there were 6 parishes in Germany , a metropolitan and 5 priests as well as the German Orthodox Trinity Monastery to the diocese. Currently (2018) the number of municipalities in Germany has increased to ten, plus two municipalities in Austria ( Vienna and Graz ) and one municipality in Zurich in Switzerland. In Germany, the number of Orthodox Bulgarians rose from around 60,000 in 2008 to around 130,000 in 2017.

history

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Metropolitan Simeon in Budapest (2007)
Political situation until 1990 ( NATO blue and Warsaw Pact red)

As a result of the policy of greater transparency and openness of the government towards the population, called glasnost since March 1985 , Simeon (Kostadinow) was appointed Metropolitan of the (foreign) diocese of Western Europe , then based in the Hungarian capital Budapest, on April 17, 1986 . By resolution of the Holy Synod, Simeon had worked tirelessly as vicar bishop of the Bulgarian Patriarch Maxim with a chair in Budapest for the Bulgarian Orthodox congregations in Western Europe from December 22, 1979 , and in 1982 he also established congregations in Germany (in Munich and Stuttgart) called. Previously, he had recommended himself as the long-time vicar bishop of the metropolitan area of New York and administrator of the diocese of Akron for this difficult foreign office during the Cold War , which led him to the interface between the warring blocs NATO and the Warsaw Pact . Tichon (Iwanow) was appointed as his secretary , who had only emigrated to Germany in 1977, at that time attended a medical college and in 1981 was employed at a Stuttgart hospital. Tikhon held the office of secretary until 2000. From 1973 to 1975 he was the librarian of the Holy Synod, but got into political difficulties because only his father was Bulgarian and his mother German.

Bulgarian Orthodox Church in the Ferencváros district of Budapest
Boris von Newrokop 1936/37

Budapest was chosen as the first seat of the diocese not only because of its geographical proximity to the motherland and the cheaper accommodation and maintenance of premises in this Eastern European country at the time. The Hungarian capital could also look back on a long tradition within the Bulgarian Orthodoxy. Budapest was a preferred center for Bulgarian exiles. Following an impulse in the first year of the war in 1914, a Bulgarian Orthodox community and a Bulgarian school were founded here in 1916, the chapel of which became the first place of worship. In the mid-1920s, the rapidly growing Bulgarian minority in Budapest started an initiative to build a church and a new, larger schoolhouse. The construction of a basilica on a 3,000 km 2 plot of land took place in 1930 exclusively with donations. The architect was Arkaja Aladar , who was inspired by the famous Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia and the Baczkowski Monastery . In the early 1930s Boris became a priest, secretary of the Holy Synod and later Metropolitan of Newrokop . He was followed by Ivan Nedeltschew in office, a brother of the metropolitan and after the fall of the Wall, the opposing patriarch Pimen von Newrokop . Ivan held this post through all the dangers of the time up to 1971, including during the Second World War with the occupation by the Wehrmacht in Operation Margarethe from March 19, 1944, the American and British air raids and the severe devastation by the Red Army at the end of December 1944 to early February 1945, which besieged the city until it was captured. The Hungarian uprising in 1956 also fell into his term of office. Ivan was followed by the priests Mikhail Dimitrov, Jordan Mizov and Ivan Shumov.

The turning point and the peaceful revolution in the GDR made it possible to move the metropolitan headquarters to Berlin, which was confirmed by the Holy Synod on May 30, 1994. It was also decided to change the name to the Bulgarian Orthodox Diocese of Western and Central Europe . Budapest remained the second metropolitan seat. This relocation was also justified historically. Immediately afterwards, on August 21, 1994, Simeon consecrated the German Orthodox Trinity Monastery in Buchhagen as a sign of the new focus of his diocese. This act was prepared by the signing of the statute of the monastery as Germanski Prawoslawen Manastir ( German Orthodox Monastery ) on March 27, 1994.

In spring 2000 Galaktion (Tabakow) , since February 27, 2000 Metropolitan of the Diocese of Stara Sagora , appointed Stefan Mamakow as priest of Budapest. In the same year Tikhon (Ivanov) was ordained a monk by Metropolitan Simeon on November 11th and an archimandrite on July 8th, 2001.

On July 6, 2003 Archimandrite Tikhon was ordained titular bishop of Tiweriopolski and vicar of the diocese by the patriarch Maxim and ten (arch) bishops .

On May 29, 2005, Metropolitan Simeon, Episcopal Vicar Tichon, Archimandrite Charalampi (Warna) and other clergy consecrated the chapel on Neukölln Cemetery V of the Jerusalem and New Church Congregation to the Holy Tsar Boris I Michael the Baptist as a cathedral of the west and Central European Diocese of Bulgarian Orthodoxy. The ceremony was attended by the then Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Simeon Sakskoburggotski (formerly Tsar Simeon II), and the Bulgarian ambassador. Shortly thereafter, Metropolitan Simeon withdrew for the first time for health reasons, whereupon Metropolitan Galaktion was appointed provisional administrator of the diocese on June 24, 2005. The actual administration of the diocese was largely taken over by Bishop Tichon von Tiweriopolski.

On December 1, 2009, a synod under the auspices of the Metropolitan of Plovdiv, Nicholas, decided to remove Metropolitan Simeon from his diocese because of his long absence without his consent. At the same time, Bishop Tikhon was deposed. The media suspected pro-Catholic actions from an overly friendly attitude towards the Catholic Church on the part of Bishop Tichon, which the Metropolitan Simeon had not prevented consistently enough. Bishop Tikhon was called to chair the Alexander Nevsky Patriarchal Cathedral in Sofia , where he arrived on December 22, 2009 to take up his new office.

Metropolitan Galaktion von Stara Zagora was appointed provisional administrator of the diocese, although it was known since 2007 that he is an employee of the Bulgarian secret service.

On April 20, 2010, a letter was published allegedly sent by Metropolitan Simeon to Bartholomeos I , the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople . This letter expressed the alleged desire of the metropolitan and his congregations to come under the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarch. Allegedly three Archimandrites and 16 parish priests and persons in charge of the parish expressed their approval of this letter. <! == In terms of church politics, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople has been trying for decades to get the Orthodox foreign dioceses of all autocephalous churches under his rule in order to compensate for his rapidly dwindling influence in his country, Turkey. Metropolitan Simeon declared that the letter was not from him. The signatures, on the other hand, were for a letter addressed to the Holy Synod, in which it was requested that Simeon be appointed Metropolitan instead of the Galaction of Stara Zagora. From June 8th 2010 Simeon was able to return to his diocese ==>

On June 11, 2013, he resigned for the second time for health reasons. Metropolitan Antonij was consecrated as his successor on October 27, 2013.

On May 11, 2016, the day of remembrance of St. Cyril and Method of Saloniki, the centenary of the Bulgarian Orthodox community in Budapest was celebrated in the presence of the Patriarch Neofit .

Communities

  • Barcelona , Spain , Church of the Birth of the Most Holy Mother of God , founded in 1997 by Priest Ivan Bonew (1954–2010) and thus the oldest Bulgarian Orthodox Church on the Iberian Peninsula, Priest Awenir Georgijeff; a multinational congregation from the outset with a high percentage of Russians and Catalans, so that the services are multilingual and also in the national language Catalan ; Many believers from the surrounding area also gather for the services in a high-rise church in Barcelona, ​​such as Lloret de Mar , Sabadell , Sant Feliu de Guíxols and Sant Cugat del Vallès
  • Berlin , Germany, St. Boris the Baptist Cathedral; founded on March 3, 1992 in the building of the diplomatic mission of the Republic of Bulgaria in Berlin; first church council: Georgi Sergijew, Pawlina Stoilowa, Wassil Penkow, Alexander Lilow, Kiril Jeschkow and Jan Proikow; legal registration took place on October 11, 1993; on March 19, 1994, the day of St. Theodor, ordained Metropolitan Simeon the priest Lyubomir Leontinow; At the general assembly on July 1, 1995, a new church council was elected; In the first three years there were considerable difficulties to be overcome, so only the most important Christian holidays could be celebrated in rented rooms, for example in a hall on the premises of the Bulgarian embassy or later in the Protestant St. Jacobi Church , a basilica in the early Christian Byzantine style in Kreuzberg ; only from 1998 could the parish use a church in Alt-Schöneberg regularly, but not independently, whereupon the pastor Julian Angelow was sent from Bulgaria to Berlin; in 2000 the congregation moved to the cemetery chapel of the old Matthäus-Kirchhof in Berlin-Schöneberg ; on September 9, 2002, a lease agreement was signed for the private use of the cemetery chapel and 350 m 2 of churchyard V of the Jerusalem and New Churches in Neukölln ; after the most necessary repairs, the chapel was consecrated as a cathedral on May 29, 2005; the cemetery chapel, built by Louis Arndt in the years 1899/1900 as a red brick building in the Gothic style, is to be further restored in the coming years; Cemetery V of the Jerusalem and New Churches is no longer required by the Evangelical Cemetery Association for its own cemetery purposes; In the summer of 2004 Boryana Velichkova founded the “Chamber Choir of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church Berlin”

  • Diplomatic Mission of the Republic of Bulgaria in Berlin

  • St. Jacobi Church, a basilica in the early Christian-Byzantine style in Berlin-Kreuzberg

  • The cemetery chapel of the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Berlin-Schöneberg

  • Cemetery V of the Jerusalem and New Churches with the Bulgarian cathedral church

  • Bonn / Cologne / Kevelaer , Germany, congregation Birth of the All Saints Theotokos , founded in February 1996, first Bulgarian Orthodox Divine Christmas Liturgy on December 25, 1996, services in the crypt of the Roman Catholic St. Augustine Church in Bonn- Bad Godesberg (the crypt is also home to the Russian Orthodox community Maria Schutz ), on December 25, 2005 the then deacon Stefan Gross was ordained a priest of the community by Metropolitan Simeon; Participation of the community in the Helena festival week from 17.-24. August 2012 in Bonn, at the end of which the relics of the saints were transferred to the Bonn Minster ; the community maintains close relationships with the orthodox monastery in Asten (Netherlands) , liturgies and baptisms also take place in the orthodox chapel Kevelaer and the Athanasius chapel in the cathedral in Trier
  • Dénia , Spain, Saint Cyril and Methodius Congregation , founded October 6, 2002 for the Valencia region of Spain , Father Alexander Velikov; the parish work began in July 2002 in a room of the Catholic Church of San Antonio in Denia with Orthodox catechism talks for Bulgarians; the first service took place in the Ermita de Les Rotes chapel in Dénia; on January 6, 2003, the first consecration of fountains was carried out in the city of Dénia and the tradition of the annual blessing of the Mediterranean began; after a short time, the celebration of the liturgy was moved to a room in the Iglesia de San Antonio (Church of St. Anthony ) in Dénia; At Pentecost 2004, May 30th, Father Alexander Velikov was ordained a proto-priest in the Church of the Holy Mother of God in Barcelona by Metropolitan Simeon; Father Alexander Velikov graduated from the Spiritual Academy of St. Kliment von Ohrid in 1988 , specialized in moral theology at the Spiritual Academy of St. Petersburg until 1990 and worked as a priest in Sliven from December 1994 ; In 2005 the parish was officially accepted into the Bulgarian Orthodox Diocese of Western and Central Europe in Regensburg; From 2006 to 2009 the service was held in Dénia, in Gandia (Jesuit Church), Valencia ( Santa Teresa de Jesús Church ) and in Enguera ( Iglesia de San Miguel Arcángel ); on this the offer of services was concentrated again on Dénia, where in 2011 the chapel La ermita de Santa Lucía could be rented, a historic building from the 15th century, which got its present form between 1708 and 1812; in March 2012 the congregation was visited by Metropolitan Antonij at its new and permanent place of worship; the metropolitan supports the congregation to be able to offer church services again in Valencia and to find a permanent place there

  • The Iglesia de San Antonio church in Dénia

  • The chapel of La Ermita de Santa Lucía in Dénia

  • Ceramic plaque at the chapel of La Ermita de Santa Lucía

  • Window on the chapel of La Ermita de Santa Lucía

Serbian Orthodox Church in Düsseldorf
  • Düsseldorf , Germany, parish of St. George the Victorious ; Pastor Anton Turnew; founded on October 22nd, 2010, first church council: Rumen Mikow, Antoaneta Bramtschijska, Dr. Altaparmakow and Plamen Bramtschijski; In connection with the search for a regular place of worship, meetings were held with representatives of Catholic and Protestant parishes, but the rents and ancillary costs presented cannot currently be raised by the Bulgarian parish; For this reason, with the blessing of Metropolitan Antonij, sacred liturgies are being held in various Orthodox churches in the region of North Rhine-Westphalia, lately mainly in the Serbian Orthodox churches of St. Sava in Düsseldorf - Lichtenbroich and St. Stephanus in Essen, in in recent years also in the (also Serbian-Orthodox) chapel Johannes der Vorläufer in Kevelaer and in the Russian-Orthodox chapel Das Heilige Grab in Bonn; church activities were suspended for a few years after the conditions of official registration could not be maintained; With the sending of the priest Anton Antonev, the parish situation has stabilized since 2014 as a result of the regular worship services, now that church services are now also taking place on site in Düsseldorf, which could not be achieved in the first few years
  • Frankfurt am Main , Germany, parish of Holy Tsar Boris I , founded on June 2, 2001 at an event in honor of the Bulgarian national poet Christo Botew (* December 25, 1847 July / January 6,  1848 greg. In Kalofer ; † 20. May jul. / 1. June  1876 greg. in Vratsa ), this celebration was attended by about 150 people attended, including the then Ambassador of the Republic of Bulgaria, Mr. Ivan Bonew and diplomat woman Schekerletowa, as members of the Church Council were elected: Dr. Mintscho Bankowski (President), Ms. Yordanka Besso (Cashier), Mr. Asen Mjuning (Domakin) and Mr. Rasho Katsarov (Secretary); The initiative to found the Bulgarian Orthodox Community went from Ms. Lili Schmidt, Ms. Marijana Pfeiffer, Ms. Swetoslawa Mjuning, Mr. Petr Ivanow and Prof. Dr. Razboinikov spas; At the end of 2001 the community was registered as a non-profit association; the services began in the Roman Catholic Church of the Assumption in Frankfurt-Griesheim ; the first priest was Father Milcho Marinov from the Church of St. Cyril and Method in Sofia, whom Mrs. Lili Schmidt met in 2000; after Dr. Mintscho Bankowski had resigned as chairman in 2003, father Miltscho Marinow was elected as his successor at a meeting of the association in 2004

  • Catholic Maria-Himmelfahrt-Church, Frankfurt-Griesheim

  • Catholic Church of the Assumption of Mary, side portal

  • Episcopal Gymnasium Graz

Hamburg-Bahrenfeld cemetery - showcase and path to the chapel
  • Hamburg , Germany, Church of Saints Cyril and Method , founded on January 26, 2007; in the first few years with the blessing of Mr. Petters from the church district Alt-Hamburg in the Lutheran Bugenhagenkirche in Barmbek-Süd , which was closed in 2004 ; after a resignation there since mid-December 2014 in the Diebsteich chapel of the Evangelical cemetery in Altona, a Protestant park cemetery in Bahrenfeld that was open to all other denominations , and since 2019 in the Easter church in Hamburg-Eilbek ; The priest was initially Julian Angelov, currently (2018) it is Krastin Apostolov; a choir under the Romanian theologian and choirmaster Radu Gabriel Pustiu has existed since 2013.
  • Lisbon , Portugal , Parish of St. Ivan Rilski the Miracle Worker ; Founded on December 25, 2001, the occasion was the move and reconstruction of the chapel from the house of the Bulgarian Zariza Joanna, who died on February 26, 2000 in her exile in Estoril , Portugal, to the Bulgarian embassy in Lisbon; this move of the royal chapel was initiated by a friend of the royal family, the architect Nikolai Fikov, who was also the long-time chairman of the church's board of trustees; after frequently changing pastors, priest Goze Christow was appointed parish pastor by the Holy Synod in December 2003; Due to the regularity of the services that followed, the congregation also grew to include believers from the Russian, Ukrainian and Moldovan churches, which is why the services in the Bulgarian embassy were problematic and stopped in September 2006; After several months of visiting the Russian Church in Lisbon, the congregation moved to the Roman Catholic Church Nossa Senhora da Lapa ; In November 2007 the congregation was registered according to the religious law in Portugal and through the efforts of the church council, the Bulgarian ambassador in Lisbon at the time, Mr Ivan Petrov, in February 2012 a Roman Catholic church in Linda-a-Velha in the greater Lisbon area was free and free use; Already at Pentecost 2012 this church was consecrated after a renovation according to the orthodox traditions by Bishop Antonij in the presence of the then Prime Minister Boyko Borissow ; Another visit by the Metropolitan took place from October 20-22, 2017; the congregation is multinational and has a multilingual library; the church choir consists of professional musicians and theologians
  • London , United Kingdom, St. Ivan Rilski Congregation , founded on March 1, 1981, the first priest sent by the Holy Synod was Tosko Kasakin from March 3, 1982, Metropolitan Natanail von Nevrokopski officiated from 1986, and then from October 15, 1988 Father Simeon Ilijew
  • Mannheim , Germany, parish Hl. Petka Turnowska , services in the cath. Maria-Hilf-Kirche Mannheim- Almenhof , founded on December 12, 2009 with the blessing of Metropolitan Simeon in the presence of Bishop Tichon of Tiberias, registered as a non-profit association in 2010, priests have been Nedjalko Kalinow and Milcho Marinow over the years; from the beginning the church choir existed under the direction of Maestro Dobrin Panaiotow; after the introduction of His Eminence, the West and Central European Metropolitan Antonius, many organizational and financial problems were resolved, including the appointment of a new pastor and the provision of funds for the purchase of books for the church library; On October 14, 2017, Vasil Bechevsky was ordained a priest for the community by His Eminence Metropolitan Antonij

  • Maria Hilf Church, Mannheim-Almenhof

  • Maria-Hilf-Kirche

  • Maria-Hilf-Kirche, Maria-Hilf-Statue

  • Maria-Hilf-Kirche, interior view

  • Munich , Germany, parish of St. Klimint von Ochrid , founded on June 8, 1982, (use of the back building of the old parish church of St. Johann Baptist ); 1979 Foundation of a Bulgarian Orthodox chapel in Pullach Castle in Kolbermoor by Theophanu von Sachsen, wife of Hermann Prinz von Sachsen; first priest: Slavcho Ivanov Slawow; first church council: Ivan Ivanov, Georgi Dinew, Emil Bojadschijew and Boncho Gotschew, responsible for the educational activity - Christo Ivanov; first public liturgy (after services in the priest's living room with up to 25 participants): the birth of Christ on December 25, 1982 in the Serbian Orthodox Church in Munich; on December 1, 1986 the priest Petr Tomow Angelow began his ministry; some time found the services in a small Protestant Hall held until a result of church growth in the newly constructed chapel St. Kliment of Ohrid in the Catholic Church of St. John Baptist by Haidhausen were moved

  • Pullach Castle in Kolbermoor , Bulgarian Orthodox chapel from 1979 to 1997

  • Pullach Castle in Kolbermoor , Bulgarian Orthodox chapel from 1979 to 1997

  • Serbian Orthodox Church of St. Martyr King Jowan Wladimir in Munich-Perlach

  • Church of St. John the Baptist with the Bulgarian Orthodox chapel of St. Klimint of Ochrid in the lower church

  • Paris , France, Parish of Saint Patriarch Yevtimii Tornovsky , founded in 1981
  • Passau , Germany, St. Anna parish , founded in 2005; Use of the Lamberg chapel ; On June 18, 1989, Father Viktor Ivanov celebrated the first Orthodox liturgy in Passau and thus in the whole of Lower Bavaria - Orthodox Russian and Romanian emigrants took part in the service - at that time there were no Bulgarians in the city except Father Victor, who too was the only Orthodox priest in the region; as a result, Father Victor became a prison priest for all Orthodox in all prisons in Bavaria in 1996; At the beginning of the new millennium, Bulgarian emigration swelled enormously, including many young people who came to study in Germany - due to the need for spiritual care, the priest Victor Iwan Zimer took over with the blessing of the West and Central European metropolitan Simeon at the end of 2005 the spiritual care of the Bulgarians in the university cities of Passau and Regensburg, which resulted in two other Bulgarian Orthodox communities; Within a short time father Victor managed to organize the young Bulgarian emigrants in Passau and, with the help of the patriotic Bulgarians Tsvetelin Georgiev and Ivan Bakalov, to found the Bulgarian Orthodox parish of Saint Anna on December 18, 2005 ; his father's friends, the Bulgarian painter Vladimir Matov and the Russian Pyotr Ivanov, worked on the church council; The father's great zeal is also valued by the local Catholic Church, which provided her with its own church for regular Bulgarian services - the Lamberg Chapel (also known as the Salvator Chapel), which houses the community of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church to the complex of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Passau ; the first liturgy in this chapel was held on December 18, 2005 and is considered the date of birth of the congregation; on July 23, 2006 the iconostasis was erected; On January 6th, 2009 the Bulgarians celebrated the baptism of Christ (theophany) and threw a cross in the Danube - the celebration of the water consecration took place at the confluence of the Danube , Inn and Ilz , with representatives of all Christian denominations of the city taking part - this marks the beginning a tradition that was accepted with curiosity and understanding by the local population; from May 15, 2009 the congregation became part of the Open Churches Night initiative ; on July 25, 2009 the congregation celebrated the Feast of the Dormition of the Just Anna, Mother of the Theotokos, with Bishop Tikhon of Tiberias; Since 2014, the liturgy is a result of the flood in the Catholic Church due to the ongoing repair work St. Peter instead

  • Passau Cathedral

  • Passau Cathedral - inner courtyard

  • Lamberg Chapel - ceiling fresco

  • Church of St. Peter in Passau

  • Regensburg , Germany, parish of Saint Nikolaus von Myra , first patronage of Saint Anna , Archpriest Victor Zimer (from Munich), use of the little St. Peter's Church ; On May 24, 1985, the day of Bulgarian education and culture and Slavic literature , Bulgarians unveiled a plaque at the Old Chapel on the Kornmarkt to commemorate the forced stay of Method von Saloniki in Regensburg, who was tried here in 870 and was exiled from here - since then the 24th of May has been celebrated annually in Regensburg by the Bulgarians; The first reports on Bulgarian Orthodox church services in Regensburg are from the turning point of 1989; on November 5, 1989, the first service took place in a Regensburg church with the priest Victor Ivanov - the first people to attend the service were, besides the few Bulgarians in the city, mostly Russian Emigrants who have lived here for a long time; Frau Kantschewa, who came to Regensburg with her husband Jonko in 1936 as the first Bulgarian gardener, came to the services; they came from Sevlievo ; Until 1989, in addition to her work in gardening and vegetable production, Ms. Kancheva also adorned the Russian Orthodox Church in the city, after which she promoted the Bulgarian Orthodox Church in the region; In the meantime, this function has been passed on to her daughter-in-law, the dentist Madlena Kancheva, who also helped shape the iconostasis of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church; the planned official foundation of the parish on December 6, 2005 (the patronage festival of the parish) had to be postponed due to the absence of the West and Central European metropolitan Simeon in Germany; on December 25, 2005, the priest Viktor Zimmer held the first divine liturgy of the newly founded congregation in the chapel of the East German Institute in Regensburg - this liturgy is considered to be the hour of birth of the congregation; on January 6, 2007 the tradition of the consecration of water was established in Regensburg; on November 3, 2007 the congregation celebrated the first liturgy in the new home of St. Peter's Church; on January 6th, 2008 the icon painter Vladimir Matov committed himself to the execution of an iconostasis, he received financial support from the co-founder and trustee of the community, Mr. Weselin Rubchev; At the end of a study week in September 2017, organized by the Eastern Church Institute of the Diocese of Regensburg and the Faculty of Orthodox Theology of the University of Sofia, professors, priests and students of the Bulgarian delegation took part in the liturgy of the community

  • Memorial plaque to the arrest Methods in Regensburg at the old chapel

  • Peterskirche Regensburg

  • Parish sign at the Peterskirchlein

  • Peterskirche inside with iconostasis

  • Segovia , Spain, parish of Holy Epiphany , founded in 2006, at the request of the parish, Metropolitan Simeon sent the Bulgarian priest Serafim Valkov with the task of legalizing the Bulgarian Orthodox Church in accordance with the requirements of local legislation in Spain, but what about the lack of support from the local population failed, so that the priest had to return without having achieved anything; In 2007, the Diocesan Council of the West and Central European Diocese, Julii Nikolow, who had been living in Madrid since 1990, was recognized as a clergyman and was now assigned this task; In April 2008, Julii Nikolow received an episcopal credentials, on the basis of which he was able to conclude a contract for the cheap rent of a former Roman Catholic church in the old town of Segovia; in the same year the Bulgarian Orthodox Church in Segovia was officially founded and also registered in accordance with the requirements of Spanish law; Priest Julii Nikolov graduated from the Spiritual Academy of St. Clement of Ohrid in 1988 and worked as a priest in the Diocese of Sofia from January 1, 1986 to July 20, 1990 , before settling permanently in Spain; On Pentecost Sunday 2011, June 12th, His Eminence Metropolitan Antonij consecrated Valery Borislavov and Georgi Russanow as lecturers in the Church of St. Epiphany
  • Strasbourg , France, Municipality of Saints Cyril and Methodius and Saint Benedict of Nursia , founded in 1997
  • Stuttgart , Germany, congregation Die Heiligen Kyrill und Method (Bulgarian Orthodox Church Congregation), liturgy in the Russian churches of Saint Nikolas in Stuttgart-Relenberg and Holy Prophet Elias and in the Serbian church The Synod of Serbian Saints on Marienplatz; Priest: Father Sergei Nenow; founded on May 19, 1982 by 25 Bulgarians, some of whom were members of the German-Bulgarian Society in Stuttgart - the founding protocol was signed by the then Vicar Bishop for Western Europe, Simeon; this event marks the beginning of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church in Germany and Western Europe; more than 30 years later, the Bulgarian Orthodox community is still looking for its own church building in Stuttgart; Priest from 1991 to 2004 father Georgi Schumow, from 2005 to 2014 father Nedjalko Kalinow; Father Sergei Nenov is the chairman of the parish; he was appointed to his service by Diocesan Bishop Antonij on January 24, 2015; the community takes part in a number of Christian and cultural celebrations every year, such as the Methodius Festival in the town of Ellwangen; today the community has about 120 members and friends

  • Russian Church St. Nicholas Cathedral Stuttgart

  • Russian Church St. Nicholas Cathedral Stuttgart

  • Vienna , Austria, parish of Saint Ivan Rilski , since June 11, 2017 liturgy in the residential complex at Dunklergasse 21 with an Orthodox church on the ground floor; founded in 1967 and registered on May 19, 1969; until December 24, 1993 in the Russian Orthodox Church in the 3rd district of Vienna, afterwards (beginning of January 1994 to the beginning of June 2017) in the Church of St. Iwan Rilski in the fourth district of Vienna on Kühnplatz since 1990 the Bulgarian Orthodox Church in Austria represented by Episcopal Vicar Mag. Iwan Petkin, who also heads the parish in Vienna;
    • There is also the Bulgarian Orthodox Chapel of Saints Cyril and Method in Klagbaumgasse;
    • Archimandrite: Ioan (Jelkow)

  • Roman Catholic parish Maria Krönung Zurich Witikon, exterior view

  • Roman Catholic parish Maria Krönung Zurich Witikon, entrance

  • Roman Catholic parish Maria Krönung Zurich Witikon, interior view

  • Roman Catholic parish Maria Krönung Zurich Witikon, altar

Monasteries

Gate of the Trinity Monastery Buchhagen

Currently (2020) the German Orthodox Trinity Monastery exists in the metropolitan area in Buchhagen , a district of Bodenwerder ( Lower Saxony ) in the Weser Uplands .

The founder of the monastery, Johannes Pfeiffer (* 1955) studied music and religious studies in Berlin, where he came into contact with Orthodoxy in the early 1970s . After his conversion to the Orthodox Church, he became a monk on Holy Mount Athos , where he also received monastic ordinations up to the highest level of the Archimandrite . In 1990 the non-profit "Foundation of the German Orthodox Trinity Monastery" was established and a plot of land in Buchhagen was purchased. The first buildings of the monastery, largely built by the monks themselves, were completed in 1992. The monastery was consecrated in 1994 by the Bulgarian Orthodox Metropolitan Symeon , and the crypt was consecrated two years later . Finally, the holy water fountain was erected in the courtyard as a monopteros on eight columns with a dome. The architectural design comes from Abbot Johannes, who takes up elements of the Weser Romanesque as well as the Byzantine monastery architecture.

Originally the monastery was planned as a subsidiary of an Athos monastery. The Council of the Ancestors ( Synaxis ) of the Koutloumousiou Monastery (Athos) had already prepared a corresponding statute in 1982, but its implementation failed due to the resistance of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Germany .

The canonical integration of the monastery founded in 1990 into the Bulgarian Orthodox Church took place at a synod of the diocese in autumn 1993. On March 27, 1994, the monastery received a canonical statute that goes back to that which the synaxis on Mount Athos for 1982 the German foundation had been created. This laid down the German national character and the monastic autonomy of the monastery. Theologically this statute is justified by the fact that it corresponds to the testimony of the Slav apostles Cyril and Method , who defended the right of all peoples to worship in their own language more than 1000 years ago .

In addition to the cultivation of the Byzantine liturgy , the liturgical chant that is cultivated in the monastery is a specialty: the German chant . This choral tradition was developed by the abbot of the monastery for orthodox worship in German and continues the work to gain a "German choral tradition" that has been carried out in the Roman Catholic and Protestant areas. The German chant continues to take up the Byzantine chant as it is alive in the Athos monasteries and other monastic centers of the Orthodox Church. The basis of the new writing of the German chorale is the chorale notation of Solesmes . A separate translation, the Buchhäger Psalter, serves as the basis for the psalm song .

Furthermore, there is a familiarity of Orthodox Christians who - without being monks or nuns themselves - have a special spiritual relationship with the monks of the monastery and support this in various ways, each according to his possibilities.

literature

  • Iva Penkova, Vladimir Penchev (eds.) With the collaboration of Elitsa Karaeneva, Sofia Kirilova, Ana Kocheva, Mariana Lazarova, Nikoleta Parachkevova, Elitsa Tsenova, Donika Tsvetanova –Drentcheva, Nora Dincheva and Martina Yordanova: The Bulgarian Community in Austria. A historical, linguistic and ethnological research. (in Bulgarian), State Agency for Bulgarians Abroad

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the religious studies media and information service REMID (accessed on March 30, 2018)
  2. ↑ on 27 July 1914, a 17-member organizing committee took the idea of establishing an On the initiative of the born in Teteven gardener Lazar Ivanov society of Bulgarians in Hungary (Bulgarian: Дружество на българите в Унгария , Hungarian Magyarországi Bolgárok Egyesülete ) on. Within 6 days 170 Bulgarians donated a sum of 4,345 gold crowns, with which the society could be brought into being on August 2nd, 1914. On July 28, 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, and World War I followed. Bulgarian gardeners in Budapest at the time of the First World War , website of Magyarországi Bolgárok Egyesülete (Hungarian), accessed on February 17, 2018
  3. ↑ School class with teacher in front of the school in Budapest in the 1920s (accessed February 17, 2018)
  4. ^ Bulgarian Orthodox community in Budapest in the 1930s , priests in Budapest in the 1930s (accessed on February 17, 2018)
  5. ↑ Иван Неделчев
  6. ↑ Михаил Димитров
  7. ↑ Йордан Мицов
  8. ↑ Иван Шумов
  9. ↑ Стефан Мамаков
  10. ↑ тивериополски: the old name for Strumica ; In 1897 the city became the seat of an eparchy and a metropolitan of the Bulgarian Exarchate by a decree of the Sultan (Berât), the first Bulgarian metropolitan was Gerasim of Strumica; see: Тивериопол (Macedonian)
  11. ↑ Представяне на достоизбираемите епископи (Bulgarian) Двери на православието, January 31, 2007, accessed February 4, 2018
  12. ↑ Комисия за разкриване на документите и за обявяване на принадлежност на български граждани към държавна сигурност и на разузнавателните служби българската народна армия, Bulgarian Parliament: Р Е Ш Е Н И Е № 14/4 September 2007 г. September 5, 2007, accessed February 5, 2018 (Bulgarian).
  13. ↑ Епископ Симеон поиска Западно- и Средноевропейската ни епархия да мине към КонстантинополА (accessed February 5, 2010).
  14. ↑ Archimandrite Ioan Schelkow (Vienna) = Архимандрит Йоан Желков за БПЦО, “Св. Кирил и Методий ”в гр. Виена - Австрия ; Archimandrite Emilijan Bozanowski (Paris) = Архимандрит Емилиян Боцановски за "Св. Патриарх Евтимий ”в гр. Париж - Франция ; Archimandrite Johannes Pfeiffer (Abbot of the German Orthodox Trinity Monastery) = Архимандрит Йоханг Пфейфер за Православния германски манастир "Св. Троица ” ; Hegumen Lyubmir Leontinow (Leipzig) = Иконом Любомир Леонтинов за БПЦО "Св. Цар Борис Покръстител ”в гр. Берлин и за БПЦО „Св. Седмочисленици ”в гр. Лайпциг - Германия ; Hegumen Julian Angelow (Hamburg) = Иконом Юлиян Ангелов за БПЦО "Св. Цар Борис Покръстител ”в гр. Берлин и за БПЦО „Св. Кирил и Методий ”в гр. Хамбург - Германия ; Proto-priest Stefan Groß (Cologne) = Протойерей Стефан Грос за БПЦО "Рождество Богородично" в гр. Кьолн / Бон - Германия ; Priest Plamen Todorow (Prague) = Свещеник Пламен Тодоров за БПЦО "Св. Николай Мирликийски ”в гр. Прага - Чехия ; Priest Nikolai Andonow (Bratislava) = Свещеник Николай Андонов за БПЦО „Св. Йоан Кръстител ”в гр. Братислава - Словакия ; Proto-priest Emil Zenow Angelow (Zagreb) = Протойерей Емил Ценов Ангелов за БПЦО "Св. Седмочисленици ”в гр. Загреб - Хърватия ; Hierodiacon Awenir (Lisbon) = Йеродякон Авенир за БПЦО "Св. Йоан Рилски ”в гр. Лисабон - Португалия ; Protopriester Goze Christow (Lisbon) = Протойерей Гоце Христов за БПЦО „Св. Йоан Рилски ”в гр. Лисабон - Португалия ; Proto-priest Alexander Velikow (Valencia) = Протойерей Александър Великов за БПЦО „Св. Кирил и Методий ”в гр. Валенсия - Испания ; Priest Julii Nikolow (Madrid) = Свещеник Юлий Николов за БПЦО "Свето Богоявление" в гр. Мадрид - Испания ; Hegumen Dimitri Dimitrov (Brussels) = Ставроф. иконом Димитър Димитров за БПЦО "Св. Климент Охридски ”в гр. Брюксел - Белгия ; Hegumen Simeon Ilijew (London) = Ставроф. иконом Симеон Илиев за БПЦО „Св. Иван Рилски ”в гр. Лондон - Великобритания ; Hegumen Angel Petrunow (Malmö and Oslo) = Ставоф. иконом Ангел Петрунов за БПЦО „Св. Паисий Хилендарски ”в гр. Стокхолм и за БПЦО „Св. Богородица ”в гр. Малмьо ”- Швеция, БПЦО“ Св. Димитър ". В гр Гьотеборг" - Швеция, БПЦО в гр Осло - Норвегия "Св Кирил и Методий.." ; Proto priests Nedjalko Kalinov (Munich, Stuttgart and Mannheim) = Протойерей Недялко Калинов за БПЦО "Св Климент Охридски." В гр. . Мюнхен и за БПЦО ". Св Кирил и Методий" в гр Щутгарт, БПЦО "Св Патр Евтимий Търновски в гр Манхайм -... Германия , priest Stefan Mamakow (Budapest) = Свещеник Стефан Мамаков за БПЦО" Св Кирил и Методий ". от гр. Будапеща и за БПЦО "Св. Иван Рилски" в гр. Пейч - Унгария ; priest Iwalin Slavov (Rome) = Свещеник. Свещеник
  15. ^ Dominika Kovačević: 100-lecie bułgarskiej parafii w Budapeszcie. 18 maja 2016 (Polish). Retrieved February 17, 2018
  16. ↑ Рождество на Пресвета Богородица
  17. ↑ Иван Бонев
  18. ↑ Авенир (Георгиев)
  19. ↑ Св. цар Борис Покръстител
  20. ↑ Георги Сергиев, Павлина Стоилова, Васил Пенков, Александър Лилов, Кирил Ежков и Ян Пройков
  21. ↑ Bulgarian: Тодоровден
  22. ↑ Любомир Леонтинов
  23. ↑ consisting of: Tinka Witt-Meise, Ljubomir Bratojew, Kiril Jeschkow, Petar Bontschew, Georgi Sergiyev and Petko Abadschijew (Тинка Вит-Майзе, Любомир Братоев, Кирил Ежков, Петър Бончев, Георги Сергиев и Петко Абаджиев)
  24. ↑ Website about the St. Jacobi Church in Kreuzberg
  25. ^ Website of the Protestant community Alt-Schöneberg
  26. ↑ Юлиян Ангелов
  27. ^ Website of the Old Matthew Cemetery of the Evangelical Twelve Apostles Church Community in Berlin-Schöneberg
  28. ↑ NEW DIVERSITY OF USE TO THE WEST OF HERMANNSTRASSE
  29. ^ Website of the Bulgarian Orthodox Choir Berlin
  30. ↑ Bulgarian: Рождество Богородично
  31. ↑ ordination certificate on rilaeu.com
  32. ↑ Helena relics on rilaeu.com
  33. ^ Website of the Bonn community
  34. ↑ Website of the Orthodox monastery Asten (Netherlands)
  35. ^ Website of the Bonn community on the Kevelaer Orthodox Chapel
  36. ↑ Website of the Bonn community on the Athanasios Chapel Trier
  37. ↑ Website of the Ermita de Les Rotes in Dénia (Spanish)
  38. ↑ Website about the church Iglesia de San Antonio in Dénia (Spanish)
  39. ↑ Св. Богородица
  40. ↑ Website of the Parroquia Santa Teresa de Jesús in Valencia (Spanish)
  41. ↑ Website about the Iglesia de San Miguel Arcángel in Enguera (Spanish)
  42. ↑ The church Iglesia de San Miguel Arcángel in Enguera in the Spanish Wikipedia
  43. ↑ Website about the La Ermita de Santa Lucía in Dénia (Spanish)
  44. ↑ Св. Георги Победоносец
  45. ↑ Антон Търнев
  46. ↑ Румен Миков, Антоанета Брамчийска, д-р Алтапармаков и Пламен Брамчийски
  47. ↑ Pictures of the Serbian Orthodox Church of St. Sava in Düsseldorf - Lichtenbroich, accessed on February 24, 2018
  48. ↑ Website of the Serbian Orthodox Church with the parish of St. Sava in Düsseldorf - Lichtenbroich ( memento of the original from August 20, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on February 24, 2018 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.serbische-diozese.org
  49. ^ Website about the Church of St. Stephen of the Serbian Orthodox Diocese for Central Europe in Essen
  50. ↑ Website about the Serbian Orthodox Chapel John the Forerunner in Kevelaer, which is 60 kilometers from Düsseldorf and in which the Bulgarian Stefka Michel (Стефка Михел) is the director of the church choir
  51. ^ Website of the parish of St. George the Victorious Düsseldorf (Bulgarian), accessed on February 24, 2018
  52. ↑ Bulgarian: Св.Цар Борис I.
  53. ↑ Bulgarian: Христо Ботев
  54. ↑ Bulgarian: Иван Бонев
  55. ↑ Bulgarian: Шекерлетова
  56. ↑ Bulgarian: д-р Минчо Банковски, previously organized events for the Bulgarian church and folk festivals
  57. ↑ Bulgarian: г-жа Йорданка Бесо
  58. ↑ Bulgarian: г-н Асен Мюнинг
  59. ↑ Bulgarian: домакин
  60. ↑ Bulgarian: г-н Рашо Кацаров
  61. ↑ long-time organizer of humanitarian aid for Bulgaria
  62. ↑ Bulgarian: г-жа Марияна Пфайфер
  63. ↑ Bulgarian: г-жа Светослава Мюнинг
  64. ↑ Bulgarian: г-н Петър Иванов
  65. ↑ Bulgarian: проф. д-р Спас Разбойников, a well-known surgeon and officer who took part in World War II, supported the ecclesiastical community with his youthful spirit, strength, optimism and sense of duty to the homeland, as well as financially
  66. ^ Website of the Church of the Assumption of Mary
  67. ↑ Bulgarian: отец Милчо Маринов, he comes from the village of Isgrew (Изгрев, article Изгрев (област Плевен) in Bulgarian Wikipedia ) in Pleven Oblast and graduated from the Spiritual Seminary in 1985 and the Spiritual Academy in 1992; He was ordained a priest in 1997 by the then Metropolitan Pimen von Newrokop and served from 1998 to 2000 in the Church of St. Cyril and Method in 1998 with the then President Father Anatoly Balachev (Отец Анатоли Балачев) before he was called to Germany
  68. ↑ Parish of Saint Demetrios of Thessaloniki on orthodox.co.at (accessed on March 30, 2018)
  69. ↑ Website of the Bischöflichen Gymnasium Graz (accessed on March 30, 2018)
  70. ↑ Bulgarian: Свещеник: Тенчо Веселинов
  71. ↑ Parish of Saint Demetrios of Thessaloniki on bulgaren.org - melangebulgaren (accessed March 30, 2018)
  72. ^ Founding impulse on the occasion of the national holiday of Bulgaria on March 3, 2003 in the Bulgarian Honorary Consulate General in Hamburg
  73. ^ The community as a job center. With Caritas, the Bulgarian Orthodox community is offering a new type of advice service for those seeking help. In: Katholische Zeitung No. 49 of December 7, 2014 (accessed February 4, 2018)
  74. ↑ ♁ 53 ° 34 ′ 14 ″ N, 9 ° 55 ′ 51 ″ E, website about the chapel (accessed on February 4, 2018)
  75. ↑ Website of the Evangelical Cemeteries in Altona (accessed on February 4, 2018)
  76. ↑ Website of the Diebsteich cemetery (accessed on February 4, 2018)
  77. ↑ The Easter Church is handed over to the Bulgarian Orthodox community. In: kirche-hamburg.de. Retrieved March 6, 2020 .
  78. ↑ Community website (accessed February 4, 2018)
  79. ↑ Website about the choir (accessed on February 4, 2018)
  80. ↑ Bulgarian: Св. Иван Рилски Чудотворец
  81. ↑ Portuguese: Capela de São João de Rila
  82. ↑ the royal family and with her Zariza Joanna had to leave Bulgaria on September 16, 1946
  83. ↑ Estoril, a seaside resort in the west of the Portuguese capital Lisbon, was the exile of the Spanish pretender Juan de Borbón y Battenberg during the Franco dictatorship in Spain . Other overthrown rulers, besides the last Bulgarian tsar Simeon von Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha , held a cultivated exile in Estoril, including Miklós Horthy from Hungary, Umberto II from Italy and Karl II from Romania .
  84. ↑ daughter of Viktor Emanuel III. , King of Italy from 1900 to 1946
  85. ↑ Bulgarian: Гоце Христов
  86. ↑ Website of the Comunidade de Todos os Santos em Lisboa parish of All Saints' Day in Lisbon (Portuguese / Russian), accessed on February 23, 2018
  87. ↑ Photos of the Igreja Ortodoxa Russa em Lisboa (Russian Orthodox Church in Lisbon), accessed on February 23, 2018
  88. ↑ Portuguese: Nossa Senhora da Lapa
  89. ↑ Internet presence of Igreja ortodoxa búlgara Portugal (Portuguese / Bulgarian), accessed on February 23, 2018
  90. ↑ Iconostasis and details of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church in Lisbon (drawings) , accessed on February 23, 2018
  91. ↑ Igreja Ortodoxa Búlgara (Lisboa) The Bulgarian Orthodox Church on the website of the city of Lisbon (Portuguese), accessed on February 23, 2018
  92. ↑ Свети Иван Рилски
  93. ↑ Тоско Казакин
  94. ↑ Неврокопски Митрополит Натанаил
  95. ↑ отец Симеон Илиев
  96. ↑ Bulgarian: Св. Петка Търновска
  97. ↑ Bulgarian: Недялко Калинов
  98. ↑ Bulgarian: Милчо Маринов
  99. ↑ Bulgarian: Добрин Панайотов
  100. ↑ Bulgarian: Васил Бечевски
  101. ↑ Website about Pullach Castle ( Memento of the original from May 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in Kolbermoor , accessed on February 23, 2018 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schloss-pullach.de
  102. ↑ Славчо Иванов Славов
  103. ↑ 1st chairman Иван Иванов, 2nd chairman Георги Динев, 1st secretary Емил Бояджиев and 2nd secretary Бончо Гочев, responsible for educational activities: Христо Иванов
  104. ↑ Петър Томов Ангелов
  105. ^ Image from the chapel in Munich , accessed on February 24, 2018.
  106. ↑ Visit of Metropolitan Simeon in the Chapel of St. Clement of Ohrid, accessed on February 24, 2018
  107. ^ Website of the municipality of Munich , accessed on February 23, 2018.
  108. ↑ Св. Патриарх Евтимий Търновски
  109. ↑ Bulgarian: Св. Ана
  110. ↑ Bulgarian: Виктор Иванов
  111. ↑ Bulgarian: Виктор Иванов Цимер
  112. ↑ Bulgarian: родолюбивите българи Цветелин Георгиев и Иван Бакалов
  113. ↑ Bulgarian: Владимир Матов
  114. ↑ Russian: Петър Иванов
  115. ↑ Father Victor organized and financed the iconostasis; it was set up and illuminated just hours before the liturgy for the festival on July 23, 2006 - the Bulgarian icon painter Vladimir Matov and the Russian Pyotr Ivanov help him
  116. ↑ Bulgarian: Вeлик вoдoсвeт
  117. ↑ On this occasion, the Lamberg Chapel was open from evening until late at night - the number of visitors to the churches in Passau exceeded the number of church visits during the Easter holidays in the city that night
  118. ↑ The feast day of St. Anna is traditionally celebrated every year and on December 9th - St. Anne's conception
  119. ↑ St. Peter is the second largest church in the city of Passau after the cathedral st. Stephan
  120. ↑ Св Николай Мирликийски Чудотворец
  121. ↑ Bulgarian: Ден на българската просвета и култура и на славянската писменост
  122. ↑ Българите в Регенсбург празнуват 24 май of May 29, 2007 on the 23rd pilgrims' meeting in honor of St. Method on dveri.bg in Bulgarian (accessed on March 26, 2018)
  123. ↑ Покров Богородичен
  124. ↑ отец Виктор Иванов
  125. ↑ Кънчева
  126. ↑ Йонко
  127. ↑ Bulgarian: Севлиево
  128. ↑ Мадлена Кънчева
  129. ↑ This first Christmas liturgy took place on the initiative of the patriotic Bulgarians of the Bavarian-Bulgarian Cultural Association in Regensburg, namely Iwan Iliew, Weselin Rubtschev and Stefan Gantschev (Иван Илиев, Веселин Рубчев и Стефан swan Ган swanчowен) Владимир Матов и Петър Иванов) Нова Българска църковна община в Регенсбург, Германия from December 29, 2005 in dveri.bg on March 26, 2005 in Bulgarian
  130. ↑ present at the first consecration of the water were the members of the church leadership Weselin Rubtschev, Iwan Ilijew, Stefan Gantschev and Dr. Madlen Kantscheva (Веселин Рубчев, Иван Илиев, Стефан Ганчев, д-р Мадлен Кънчева), many community members, students of the University of Regensburg and crew members of the cargo ship St. Paul - after water consecration the Bulgarians gathered in the office of Mr. Rubtschev near the port Йорданов ден в Регенсбург from January 10, 2007 on dveri.bg in Bulgarian (accessed March 26, 2018)
  131. ↑ Българите в Регенсбург имат нова църква - обновено със снимки на храма from November 6, 2007 on dveri.bg in Bulgarian (accessed March 26, 2018)
  132. ↑ Bulgarian: Владимир Матов
  133. ↑ Bulgarian: Веселин Рубчевzum - Богоявление в Регенсбург from January 7, 2008 on dveri.bg in Bulgarian (accessed March 26, 2018)
  134. ↑ The director of the Eastern Church Institute of the Diocese of Regensburg, P. Dr. Dietmar Schon OP A festival for the Bulgarian Orthodox community of Regensburg Website of the Diocese of Regensburg from September 26, 2017 (accessed on March 26, 2018)
  135. ↑ Св. Богоявление
  136. ↑ Серафим Вълков
  137. ↑ Юлий Николов
  138. ↑ Валери Бориславов
  139. ↑ Георги Русанов
  140. ↑ Russian: Храм Святителя Николая Штутгарт , since 1895 in Stuttgart-Relenberg on the corner of Seidenstrasse and Hegelstrasse
  141. ↑ Serbian: Храм Срба Светитеља , since 1971 on Marienplatz
  142. ↑ Bulgarian Orthodox Church “St. Iwan Rilski " on mosaic.de (accessed on March 30, 2018)
  143. ↑ Website of the WOHNHAUSANLAGE DUNKLERGASSE 21 : New construction of investment apartments in solid construction according to the low energy standard . 46 apartments, as well as an Orthodox church on the ground floor. (accessed on March 30, 2018)
  144. ↑ The Dunklergasse 21 project on dunklergasse.at (accessed on March 30, 2018)
  145. ↑ Cf. The Bulgarian Orthodox parish “St. Ivan Rilski ", Vienna, Austria (accessed March 30, 2018)
  146. ↑ Website of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church in Austria (accessed March 30, 2018)
  147. ↑ Church website on "Saints Cyril and Method" (accessed on March 30, 2018)
  148. ↑ Bulgarian: "Свети Георги Победоносец" Швейцария Website of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church in Switzerland in Bulgarian (accessed on March 28, 2018)
  149. ↑ Website of the Maria Krönung Church in Zurich-Witikon (accessed on March 28, 2018)
  150. ↑ Internet presence of the municipality of Zurich in Bulgarian (accessed on March 28, 2018)
  151. ↑ Bulgarian: Отец Йордан Пашев
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  155. ↑ a b c d Armin Simon (text) and Christian Wyrwa (photos): The abbot and his monk. In: taz . December 23, 2003, pp. 22-23 , accessed April 9, 2020 .
  156. ↑ Father Lazarus: From the history of the monastery. Part 1, 1985-1995 . In: monastery letter . 2015, p. 26 .
  157. ↑ Father Lazarus: From the history of the monastery. Part 1, 1985-1995 . In: monastery letter . 2015, p. 43-44 .
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