/ world today news/ I am not one of those who applaud the decisions of the Holy Synod of the BOC for awarding Prime Minister Borisov with the highest church order and for including Simeon of Saxe-Coburg-Goth in the liturgy. But I am not one of those who find something scandalous in these decisions. For several reasons:
First, I find the decisions of the Holy Synod untimely. Their essential shortcoming is the lack of a publicly disclosed motivation, which would prevent at least some of the speculations that began to be launched in the public space. But the most important thing is that on the occasion of such a significant anniversary – 1150 years since the Baptism – it would have been far better for both the Church and society if the Holy Synod had awarded prizes and honors not to active politicians, but to undisputed personalities , which are unequivocally accepted by society, regardless of political and other biases. It seems to me that the Holy Synod of the BOC underestimated the fact that both Mr. Borisov and Mr. Sakskoburggotsky are direct participants in the political process as party leaders and prime ministers. Both rather polarize the society – some support them, others do not accept them. They are part of the political conjuncture. It would have been quite different if the Holy Synod had awarded the highest distinction to an indisputable personality who evokes nothing but admiration and in the eyes of society embodies eternal Christian and human virtues. Such, for example, is grandfather Dobri.
Second, however, there is nothing scandalous about the decisions. It is the autonomous will of the Holy Synod and of the church itself who and how it honors or replaces in church services. Absurd and untenable from the point of view of constitutional law are the speculations that have appeared that the decision to title Mr. Saxe-Coburg-Gothsky as “Bulgarian king” in religious services affected the constitutional order, created “dualism” and other legal ignorance (sometimes unfortunately graduated!). There is an indisputable ecclesiastical fact – Simeon of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha was anointed by the BOC as king, according to the canon. Along with this, it is an indisputable historical and constitutional fact that he was the acting head of state, monarch, of the Kingdom of Bulgaria, who, in accordance with the Tarnovo Constitution, exercised this function through regents due to his minor age. The ecclesiastical anointing as king is irrevocable and lifelong and has no relation to the state structure and the current Constitution. According to church canons, even if a king does not reign, he is the bearer of the royal dignity as soon as he is anointed as a monarch. Not so for the son of the late Kardam, who appears according to monarchical traditions as the heir to the throne of Simeon the Second, but was not anointed as king and will not be honored in this way after some time by the BOC. The question: “why am I making this decision only now” is reasonable. But according to the current constitutional order, religion is separated from the state, and every denomination, not only the BOC, can honor in its prayers whom and how it sees fit. And the state has no right to interfere.
Thirdcannot fail to make the impression that the main point “the constitutional order is being violated” is compulsively launched by those political, public and expert circles that caused and maintained for a whole decade the disastrous ecclesiastical schism. The governments of Philip Dimitrov and Ivan Kostov and their elected president Petar Stoyanov announced that Bulgaria did not have a patriarch and that there were two Orthodox churches – something that even the Turkish sultan during the time of Turkish slavery did not dare! They kissed the hand of the false patriarch Pimen. In their time, unprecedentedly, the battle flags were not consecrated by the Holy Epiphany Church. The same grant intellectuals and sorosoids who were then the public advocates of the schism and persecution against the BOC, today are once again mounting an anti-church campaign.
But, as then, as now, it must be said out loud – it will not pass!
Borislav TsekovInstitute for Modern Politics, author and proponent of the current Law on Religions, passed in 2002, which ended the schism in the BOC
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