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Bulgarian Immigrants Set Up Parish in Ireland's Cork

Society | April 24, 2011, Sunday // 15:31

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Bulgaria: Bulgarian Immigrants Set Up Parish in Ireland's Cork

Smolyan bishop Antoniy performed the first Orthodox service in the Holy Trinity chapel for the Bulgarian community in Cork. Photo from Monitor

The Bulgarian community in the Irish city of Cork has set up a Bulgarian Orthodox parish.

The parish was created with the blessing of the Bulgarian Orthodox Bishop for Central and Western Europe Simeon, the State Agency for Bulgarians Abroad announced, as cited by the Monitor daily.

The Holy Trinity chapel in Cork provided to the Bulgarian community by a local Catholic cathedral saw its first Orthodox service by the bishop of Smolyan Antoniy.

The initiative for the Bulgarian parish in Cork came from Iskren Krastev, who is a native of Silistra in Northeastern Bulgaria.

Krastev is also a founder and sponsor of the Lyuboznanie school in Cork, which is the second Bulgarian school in Ireland.

The Bulgarian Orthodox Church is expected to send a priest to serve the Cork parish shortly.

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