Bulgaria: Metropolitan Nahum called for the Opening of the Russian Church in Sofia

Metropolitan Naum of Ruse called on the Bulgarian Patriarch and Metropolitan Neophyte of Sofia to order the opening of the "Saint Nicholas Mirlikiiski" church in Sofia, also known as the Russian Church, and the services in it restored.

In a statement published on his profile on one of the social networks, Nahum called the "locking of the temple by outsiders" unacceptable, after the State Agency "National Security" ordered the expulsion of three priests - one Russian and two Belarusians, who are part of the Russian Orthodox Church in Sofia.

"In recent years, the Bulgarian ephemeral priests, for reasons unclear to us, were successively removed from this temple, which is fundamentally absurd, due to the fact that its functions are only representative in nature....