Bulgarian Exarchate
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The Bulgarian Exarchate was the official name of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church before its autocephaly was recognized by the Ecumenical See in 1945 and the Bulgarian Patriarchate was restored in 1953.
Tsarevna Miladinova's Bulgarian boarding-school for girls in Thessaloniki, 1882–1883
Seal of Bulgarian-Exarchate, 1872
Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki in the beginning of the 20th century
The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople is one of the fifteen to seventeen autocephalous churches that together compose the Eastern Orthodox Church. It is headed by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
The Church of Hagia Irene, was the cathedral church of the Patriarchate before Hagia Sophia was completed in 360
Hagia Sophia was the patriarchal cathedral until 1453
The Hagia Sophia church in Nicaea
Patriarch Gennadios with Sultan Mehmed II