Moscow secures a pro-Russian Patriarch in Bulgarian church elections

New Bulgarian Patriarch Daniil (L) with President Rumen Radev (R); Photo source: Angel Karadakov (bg-patriarshia.bg)

“I did not aspire to this position.”

These were the words from the enthronement of the new Bulgarian Patriarch, Daniil, after he was voted in by 138 members of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church electoral college on Sunday (30 June).

The former M…