Hundreds of believers joined the open-air liturgy in the center of the second largest city in Bulgaria - Plovdiv, on the occasion of 1700 years since the First Ecumenical Council in Nicaea and the feast of the heavenly patron of the city - the holy..
A great blessing and joy for all Orthodox Christians in Bulgaria is the Saint Athanasius Monastery near the town of Chirpan. It was founded by the saint himself in the IV century (344), near an old Roman fortress, close to the then town of Beroe..
