Visit to Bulgaria: Patriarch Bartholomew describes opponents of his visit as “zealots”translated

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew called Bulgarian faithful opposed to his visit “zealots” and “extremists.” In an interview given before his stay in Bulgaria, from October 17 to 19, he also presented the Bulgarian Orthodox Church as a possible mediator between Constantinople and Moscow. At the Rila Monastery, the commemoration of the primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church provoked a cry of protest. A contested visit Patriarch Bartholomew was

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