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Stefan I of Bulgaria

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Sofia

Successor
  
Mihail of Dorostol

Predecessor
  
Neophyte of Vidin


Term ended
  
6 September 1948

Installed
  
21 January 1945

Name
  
Stefan of

Stefan I of Bulgaria

Church
  
Bulgarian Orthodox Church (Bulgarian Exarchate)

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.

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Stefan I of Bulgaria Wikipedia