He then used this as an opportunity to take a role in the struggle for an autonomous Bulgarian church.

The foundations of the Bulgarian national Church had been set.

This is the reason for the high regard that the Bulgarian Church held her in.

Through them, he achieved his goal of gaining an independent Bulgarian national church and having an archbishop appointed to head it.

The Bulgarian Orthodox Church, however, which claims the island is its property, would hear none of this.

However, between 1879 and 1900, 15 new Bulgarian churches were built in Northern Dobruja.

Her baptism in the Bulgarian Orthodox Church caused controversy at the time.

The idea of the establishment of an independent Bulgarian church and nation motivated the 1875 and 1876 uprisings in town.

Zhivkov even used the Bulgarian Orthodox Church for the purposes of his policies.

The controversy also involved Eastern and Western ecclesiastical jurisdictional rights in the Bulgarian church.