Joseph I of Bulgaria
Joseph I | |
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| Bulgarian Exarch and Metropolitan of Lovech | |
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| Church | Bulgarian Orthodox Church (Bulgarian Exarchate) |
| See | Constantinople |
| Installed | 24 April 1877 |
| Term ended | 20 June 1915 |
| Predecessor | Anthim I |
| Successor | |
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| Birth name | Lazar Yovchev |
| Born | May 5, 1840 Kalofer, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | June 20, 1915 (aged 75) Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Buried | St. Nedelya Church, Sofia |
| Nationality | Bulgarian |
| Denomination | Eastern Orthodox Church |
| Residence | Constantinople, Ottoman Empire |
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Exarch Joseph I (also known as Iosif I, secular name Lazar Yovchev, Bulgarian: Лазар Йовчев; May 5, 1840, Kalofer, Ottoman Empire – June 20, 1915, Sofia, Bulgaria) was a Bulgarian Exarch from 1877 to 1915.[1] He has great merits for preserving the unity of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and for the Bulgarian educational and ecclesiastical work in Macedonia and Thrace, which remained in the Ottoman Empire after 1878.
His grave, marked by a white cross and a bed of flowers, is located just outside the western wall of St Nedelya Church in Sofia.
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- ^ Buchan, John, ed. (1924). "Bulgaria". Bulgaria and Romania: The Nations of Today; A New History of the World. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. p. 33. Retrieved 20 June 2021 – via Internet Archive.
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