Father Boyan Sarev died this evening in the Kardzhali hospital after an illness, relatives of the priest confirmed for BTA.
Father Boyan Sarev was born on May 5, 1956 in the Krumovgrad village of Zhalti Chal. He graduated from the secondary militia school and worked as a sergeant in Krumovgrad and Sofia. In 1985, he graduated from the School of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in “Simeonovo”. With his activity, he is known not only in the Kardzhali region, but throughout Bulgaria and beyond. In May 1990, he was ordained a deacon and later a priest in the Plovdiv Diocese. He has served in the Assumption Church in Kardzhali for the past 30 years. Since 1990, he is the founder and chairman of the Movement for Christianity and Progress “St. John the Forerunner”. He developed a wide charitable, educational and missionary activity among the population in the Rhodopes, where he baptized many Pomaks and Bulgarian Turks.
For 20 years, Father Boyan Sarev fed nearly 100 people year-round in the open dining room at the “St. Assumption” in “Gledka” quarter.
He was one of the first in the Kardzhali region to express readiness to accept refugees from Ukraine and called for understanding and mutual assistance from the local population and authorities. And sheltered refugee families in the spring of 2022, and in May even introduced four Ukrainian children to the Christian faith.
In the spring of this year, he completely replaced the iconostasis of the church “St. Uspenie Bogorodichno” in the quarter “Gledka”, placed since the foundation of the church in 1939, as well as the wall paintings in it. Then the priest told BTA: “I have always wanted, as I have been here for more than 30 years, to replace it, but the funds have not been enough. Too much work has been done here, and from a simple village church, this place has turned into an Orthodox spiritual center not only for the people of Kardzhal and the Rhodopes, but also for the whole country, because people come from all over Bulgaria. In any case, a new iconostasis had to be made, and there were no frescoes.”
A miracle must happen so that the Bulgarian people can recover, live and move forward. And miracles happen where God’s infinite mercy and strong human faith meet, said Father Boyan Sarev in an interview for BTA in 2014.
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