After a long illness, His Holiness the Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and Metropolitan of Sofia Neophyte has left us at the age of 78. Shortly before midnight, on March 13, in an official statement, the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church announced that the archbishop of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church died as a result of multiple-organ failure in the Military Medical Academy in Sofia at 10:22 p.m.
In 2008, he became the holder of the title "doctor honoris causa" of the Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" for overall contribution to the development of spirituality at Sofia University and for his active participation in the restoration of the Faculty of Theology. Two years later, he was awarded by the President of Bulgaria with the Order of "St. Cyril and Methodius" - necklace "for his particularly significant merits for the development of the Theological Academy "St. Kliment Ohridski", for his contribution to the development of scientific and educational ties and relationships between Eastern and Western Christians and on the occasion of his 65th anniversary".
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