Russian Patriarch: Bulgarian PM Is Strong and Energetic

Russian Patriarch Kirill and Bulgarian PM Borisov pose with Borisov's present for the patriarch - a copy of the silver-coated 1612 Cherepish Gospel Book. Photo by BGNES

Russian Patriarch Kirill has praised Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov for being energetic as the two met in Sofia on Saturday.

Borisov kissed the hand of the head of the Russian Orthodox Church before the building of the Bulgarian Council of Ministers, as he went out to welcomed him.

Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, arrived on a three-day visit to Bulgaria, his first in the capacity of Patriarch, Friday day.

"You are young, energetic, and you act with a firm hand. May God by with you," the Russian Patriarch said, as cited by Mediapool.

In accordance with the spring traditions of the Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Patriarch Kirill presented Borisov with an Easter egg encrusted with jewels, while Borisov gave him a silver-coated copy of the Cherepish Gospel Book, one of the most famous hand-written gospel books in Bulgarian history created in 1612 AD.

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