Talk:Bulgarian Orthodox Church

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[edit] i am suprised how some people are ready to comment with their poor knowledge

how you dare to say that it was of political reason when we all know the Otoman empire was muslim.

I am not so sure about the issue of forced conversions and burning down of "most" Bulgarian churches. A couple of examples would help support that claim. If they did happen it seems that they would be for political reasons rather than religious since it would have been done by an Ottoman Empire, which among other things claimed it legitimacy in being home to the Eastern Orthodox Patriarchate and bieng the succesor of the Byzentine Empire.

[edit] Neutrality concerns

I'm concerned about this article's neutrality. Phrases like "The Bulgarian Orthodox Church is an inseparable member of the one, holy, synodal and apostolic church" don't seem up to Wikipedia's standards on neutrality and objectivity. I don't know much about the topic at hand, so I don't feel qualified to edit for content here. Partly this could be a language issue; it may be that the author did not intend to imply value judgments with terms such as "barbaric raids and incursions" or "the surrounding Slavic mass[es]," but regardless of the origin, I think it leaves the article in need of repair. -KD

[edit] Alternative orthodox

Also it would be useful to have something on the schism that began in 1992 when Patriarch Maxim's election was declared illegal. I know this led to 250-odd alternative priests being evicted in 2004 and the case is being fought in the European Court of Human Rights; a history of the Church that neglects to even mention this ongoing turmoil can only be presumed to be heavily biased.