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His Holiness
Stefan I
Bulgarian Exarch and Metropolitan of Sofia
Church
Bulgarian Orthodox Church (Bulgarian Exarchate)
See
Sofia
Installed
21 January 1945
Term ended
6 September 1948
Predecessor
Neophyte of Vidin
Successor
Mihail of Dorostol
Personal details
Born
Stoyan Popgeorgiev Shokov
(1878-09-19)September 19, 1878
Shiroka Laka, Ottoman Empire
Died
May 12, 1957(1957-05-12) (aged 78) Banya, Bulgaria
Buried
Bachkovo Monastery
Nationality
Bulgarian
Denomination
Eastern Orthodox Church
Residence
Sofia, Bulgaria
Stefan I was a Bulgarian prelate. He was elected Metropolitan of Sofia in 1922 and, from 1945, also served as Exarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. He actively contributed to the rescue of the Bulgarian Jews in World War II.[1][2] He was awarded Order of the White Eagle and other decorations.[3]
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^Bar-Zohar, Michael (1998). Beyond Hitler's Grasp. The Heroic Rescue of Bulgaria's Jews. Massachusetts: Adams Media Corporation. ISBN 1580620604.
^Popgueorguiev, Stoyan (Metropolitan Stefan) The Righteous Among The Nations, Popgueorguiev, Stoyan (Metropolitan Stefan)
^Acović, Dragomir (2012). Slava i čast: Odlikovanja među Srbima, Srbi među odlikovanjima. Belgrade: Službeni Glasnik. p. 599.
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