The Kardjali priest Father Boyan Sarev, known as the Baptist of the Rhodopes, has died. The priest died this evening in the Kardzhali hospital. Boyan Saryev passed away at the age of 67 on St. Stephen’s Day, the day his nephew Nikolai Saryev died 20 years ago in Karbala, Afghanistan.
During the last more than 3 decades, Father Boyan served in the “Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary” church in the “Gledka” district of Kardzhali. The priest became famous in the early 1990s, when he founded the Movement for Christianity and Progress “St. John the Forerunner” and set himself the goal of returning the Bulgarian-Mohammedans to the Orthodox faith, which is also the origin of Boyan Sarev himself. He was born on May 5, 1956 in the Krumovgrad village of Yellow 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 the Interior in “Simeonovo”. In 1990, he was ordained a deacon and then a priest in the Plovdiv diocese.
2023-12-27 18:50:00
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