Abstract
The chapter summarizes the developments in the Bulgarian Orthodox Church during the communist period and the challenges it faced in the period of the post-communist transition. It argues that the church’s failure to confront its communist past, despite the opening of all related archives, has alienated its leadership from the public opinion and forced it to rely on, and look for, support from the minority groups, which claim to defend the purity of Orthodoxy. The current review of church life is based on the considerable literature that has been published over the past years and the state archives compiled in communist times, including the State Security secret files of all communist-era metropolitans of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, who were either targets of or collaborators with the secret police.
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