His Holiness Patriarch Neofit, who presided over the Bulgarian Church for 11 years, reposed in the Lord in March. His successor will be chosen on June 30.
A young abbot from the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church reposed in the Lord on Sunday, May 26, after a long battle with the consequences of a tragic car accident in January 2022.
It is noteworthy that the official site of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church never published any news about the concelebration. However, it didn’t escape the attention of the Bulgarian clergy, monastics, and faithful.
Archpriest John Whiteford
As it turned out, the article was not about the growth of Orthodoxy in Texas at all, but was in fact an extremely biased attempt to paint me, my parish, and other Orthodox Christians as racists, conspiracy theorists, and authoritarians.
The problem with this is that this is not restoring the ancient order of deaconesses—this is the establishment of something entirely different.