site.btaPМ Boyko Borissov Receives the Order of the Saint Tsar Boris I of Bulgaria the Baptist, First Degree

PМ Boyko Borissov Receives the Order of the Saint Tsar Boris I of Bulgaria the Baptist, First Degree

Pliska, Northern Bulgaria, May 2 BTA) - A liturgy dedicated to
the 1150th anniversary of Bulgaria's Christianization was served
 on Saturday at the basilica in Pliska by Patriarch Neophyte,
the metropolitans of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and visiting
Orthodox leaders. A message by the Patriarch and the Holy Synod
was read at the liturgy commemorating the anniversary and Saint
Tsar Boris I of Bulgaria.


Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, former prime minister Simeon
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Emil Velinov, head of the Directorate for
Religious Denominations under the Council of Ministers, received
 orders at the end of the liturgy.

Prime Minister Boyko Borissov received the Order of the Saint
Tsar Boris I of Bulgaria the Baptist, first degree, the highest
church honour, after a decision by the Holy Synod of March 11.
The order was established  in 1979, on the 1300th anniversary of
 the Bulgarian state.