"We have come to honor Neophyte for the last time, he was our beloved brother," said Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, BGNES reported.
"We pray to God for the repose of his soul and for the election of his successor, who will be the spiritual father of all Bulgarians," the Ecumenical Patriarch added.
Asked by BGNES, Bartholomew did not want to answer whether the Russian Church is causing schism in the Orthodox world. /BGNES
