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Orthodox clergy, official, honour guards and people walk along with the coffin of the Bulgarian Patriarch Neophyte during his funeral with honours procession, in Sofia, Saturday, March 16, 2024. Bulgarians have lined the streets of Sofia to bid farewell to the late Orthodox Patriarch Neophyte. The spiritual leader of Bulgaria’s Orthodox Christians died on Wednesday at the age of 78 after a long illness. Neophyte, who became patriarch in 2013, was the first elected head of the Bulgarian church after the fall of communism in 1989. (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova)

Orthodox clergy, official, honour guards and people walk along with the coffin of the Bulgarian Patriarch Neophyte during his funeral with honours procession, in Sofia, Saturday, March 16, 2024. Bulgarians have lined the streets of Sofia to bid farewell to the late Orthodox Patriarch Neophyte. The spiritual leader of Bulgaria’s Orthodox Christians died on Wednesday at the age of 78 after a long illness. Neophyte, who became patriarch in 2013, was the first elected head of the Bulgarian church after the fall of communism in 1989. (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova)

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