A bishop leads a memorial service for the late Bulgarian patriarch Neophyte at St Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, in Sofia, Bulgaria, March 15, 2024. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov
SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgarian worshippers thronged Sofia's golden-domed Alexander Nevsky Cathedral on Friday to pay their last respects to Orthodox Christian Patriarch Neophyte who died this week aged 78.
Neophyte, a soft-spoken theologian who sought to restore the reputation of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church hurt by links to businessmen and communist secret police, succeeded Patriarch Maxim in 2013.
