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In December 1860, Constantinople became another center of the First Uniat movement.

The Second Uniat movement started again in Kukush.

The so-called Uniat churches keep their liturgical local custom and practice, as the Anglican body would be allowed to do under the new offer.

In the 19th century, there were three main Uniat movements in the then Bulgarians populated lands.

He died the same year, after witnessing the ruin of the Ruthenian Uniat Church in his diocese.

Funded by France, the paper argued that a Uniat with Rome was the only solution to Bulgaria.

The First Uniat movement originated in two centers: Kukush and Constantinople.

His attempt of a union was successful, and in the same year he held services in his new capacity of a Uniat Catholic bishop.

Several years later in 1883, he was promoted to Archbishop of all Uniat Bulgarians and went to Constantinople.

In 1861 the Vatican and the Ottoman government recognized a separate Bulgarian Uniat Church.

The movement for union with Rome led to the initial recognition of a separate Uniat Millet by the Sultan in 1860.

Indeed Tsankov, who was educated by the Jesuits, helped to form the Uniat church in Bulgaria in 1861.

The First Uniat movement spread into several towns and villages in Macedonia and Thrace, but they did not yield any concrete results.

In 1941, the Uniat parishes went under the jurisdiction of the Apostolic Exarchate in Sofia.

The reasons for the failure of the First Uniat movement could be found in the political character of the movements, rather than in the population's deep religious devotion.

Thus, in the interplay between the Orthodox and the Uniat doctrine, Bulgaria supported the Orthodox Exarchate.

They constructed there a Dominican Catholic cloister in 1686 and a wooden castle, the Basilian Uniat cloister, in 1702.

The leading figure of the Uniat movement was the Bulgarian merchant Dragan Tsankov, who had the support of Catholic France.

This act was sanctioned by the Vatican and the Ottoman government in the same year, thus paving the way for the establishment of a Bulgarian Uniat Church.

A proposal to use the UNIAT model to allow denominations to retain their traditional liturgies and canon law was never able to solve the problem of ultimate papal authority.

Franciszek Gajewski became the Castellan of Konarsk-Kuyavia and Florian Hrebnicki the Uniat Archbishop of Polotsk.

In the same year Izvorov was promoted to be the Administering Bishop of all Uniat Bulgarians, directly subordinated to the Apostolic Delegate in Constantinople.

Ethiopian Catholic Church - formerly known as the Uniat Abyssinian Church, a Metropolitan Eastern particular Church within the Catholic Church.

In modern times Cardinal Mermillod and Michele Petkoff, Vicar Apostolic of the Uniat Bulgarians in Thrace, were titular bishops.

It was led by Mihail Mirov, who was proclaimed as also Administering Bishop of all Uniat Bulgarians, with sead in Constantinople as of 1907.