Pope Francis is tending to Orthodox relations with a delicate visit starting Sunday to the Balkan nations of Bulgaria and North Macedonia.
In this photo taken on Tuesday, April 30, 2019, a vendor selling Orthodox icons wait for customers at an open air market near the Alexander Newsky cathedral, in Sofia, Bulgaria, ahead of an upcoming visit by Pope Francis. During his first visit to the Orthodox country of Bulgaria, on May 5 and 6, Pope Francis will visit the capital, Sofia, and the town of Rakovsky, which is home of the largest Catholic community in the Balkan country.
The conservative Bulgarian Orthodox Church doesn’t participate in official Catholic-Orthodox dialogue and its Holy Synod governing body has made clear that it will not take part in any joint services or prayers with the pope. Francis has a different tightrope to walk in North Macedonia, where the Macedonian Orthodox Church declared its independence, or autocephaly, in 1967 but has not been recognized by other Orthodox churches. Serbian, Bulgarian and Greek Orthodox leaders, who all seek dominance over the country’s Orthodox faithful, consider the Macedonian Orthodox Church schismatic.
In the Catholic stronghold of Rakovsky, Francis will meet with the Catholic community in the St. Michael Archangel Church, which Roncalli helped rebuild after a devastating 1928 earthquake. Bulgaria, with the bloc’s highest mortality rate and the one of the lowest birth rates, is also the world’s fastest shrinking nation, with its current population of 7 million expected to dwindle to 5.4 million by 2050 and 3.9 million by the end of the century. Tens of thousands of workers also leave the country annually in search of new opportunities.
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