It is the first report card on how each U.S. diocese or eparchy is carrying out the bishops' 2002 Charter. |
At the end of November, the clergy from the northern Vratsa Eparchy voiced outrage against the Bulgarian Holy Synod over not receiving salaries and benefits. |
I'm a bit surprised that this stuff is tolerated in a Byzantine rite eparchy. |
In an eparchy, the communion of the clergy, consecrated persons and the laity is centred around the bishop. |
Ivan Rilski, of the Bulgarian eparchy in Shishli because the Iron Church can no longer accommodate all the worshipers. |
In Russia, an eparchy is the diocese or arch-diocese of a bishop or archbishop of the Greek Church. |