In entrance of journalists, the spokesman of the Holy Synod of Stara Zagora, Metropolitan Cyprian, introduced that the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church – Bulgarian Patriarchate, in full composition with election by secret poll, has chosen the three diocesan metropolitans as worthy candidates to occupy the patriarchal throne.
The Holy Synod elected the three contenders for Patriarch. These are Grigoriy Vrachanski, Gavriil Lovchanski and Daniil Vidinski.
“After checking the submitted ballots, it was established that with the votes of two-thirds or 9 of the bishops, members of the Holy Synod, Metropolitan Grigoriy of Vratsa was elected with 11 votes within the first spherical, Metropolitan Daniil of Vidin with 9 votes after the thirty second spherical and Metropolitan Gavriil of Lovčana with 9 votes within the forty second spherical,” added the spokesman of the Holy Synod.
The candidate for Bulgarian Patriarch and Metropolitan of Sofia should possess the next qualities: be a serving diocesan metropolitan of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, be no youthful than 50 years previous, have dominated a diocese as a metropolitan for not less than 5 years, be distinguished by appropriate ideas on the Orthodox religion and with actual observance of church order.
The Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church – Bulgarian Patriarchate began this morning at 9:00 a.m. its session.
The Patriarchal Electoral Church Council will happen on June 30. The enthronement of the brand new Bulgarian Patriarch, who’s the Metropolitan of Sofia, will probably be on the identical day, within the Patriarchal Cathedral “St. Alexander Nevsky”.
On March 16, Bulgaria despatched His Holiness the Bulgarian Patriarch and Sofia Metropolitan Neophyte on his final earthly journey. He died on March 13 at 10:22 p.m. after a protracted sickness on the Navy Medical Academy (MMA-Sofia) as a consequence of a number of organ failure.
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