The 78-year-old had been hospitalised with lung illness since November final yr.
Tributes proceed to pour in for the chief of Bulgaria’s Orthodox Christian church, Patriarch Neophyte, who handed away on Wednesday.
In a press release, the church stated he had died on account of “a number of organ failure” after an extended sickness.
The 78-year-old had been hospitalised with lung illness since final November on the army medical academy within the capital Sofia.
Neophyte was the primary elected head of the church within the post-Soviet period and sought to revive its repute tainted by hyperlinks to the communist secret police.
Orthodox Christians make up over 80 per cent of Bulgaria’s almost 7 million individuals.
