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Wikipedia: The Bulgarian Orthodox Church is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Church with some 6.5 million members in the Republic of Bulgaria and between 1.5 and 2.0 million members in a number of European countries, the Americas and Australia. The recognition of the autocephalous Bulgarian Patriarchate by the Patriarchate of Constantinople in 927 AD makes the Bulgarian Orthodox Church the oldest autocephalous Slavic Orthodox Church in the world, which was added to the Pentarchy of the original Patriarchates - those of Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem - and the autocephalous Georgian Catholicosate.
![[His Holiness, the Patriarch of Bulgaria and Metropolitan of Sofia.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/DSCN1703_s.jpg "His Holiness, the Patriarch of Bulgaria and Metropolitan of Sofia.")
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![[A sign indicates the original site of Saint Stephan Bulgarian Orthodox Church in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Bulgarian_Orthodox_Church_CIMG0248_s.jpg "A sign indicates the original site of Saint Stephan Bulgarian Orthodox Church in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA")
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![[A picture of Bulgarian Orthodox Church]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Bulgaria_Alexander_Nevsky_01_s.jpg "A picture of Bulgarian Orthodox Church")
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![[A miniature from the Tetraevangelia depicting the tsar and the royal family]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Ivan_ALexander_and_his_family_Tetraevangelia_s.jpg "A miniature from the Tetraevangelia depicting the tsar and the royal family")
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![[Bulgarian orthodox priest]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Bulgarian_Orthodox_Priest_s.jpg "Bulgarian orthodox priest")
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![[St. George, the Newmartyr of Sofia, icon from the 19th century]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/George_Martyr_s.jpg "St. George, the Newmartyr of Sofia, icon from the 19th century")
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