Exarch Joseph I
1840–1915
Church leader in the independence era after Liberation.
Exarch Joseph led the Bulgarian Exarchate through a complex period of autonomy, diplomacy, and national politics.
His era shaped modern Bulgarian Orthodoxy and the church–people bond.
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