The metropolitan of Stara Zagora, Kiprian, chaired the first working meeting today of the priests – chaplains serving in Bulgarian prisons. This was reported on the website of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.
The idea of restoring the chaplaincy service in places of deprivation of liberty in Bulgaria came from senior ecumenical Father Nikolay Georgiev. He is the founder of the Chaplaincy Service in the country (1997) and chief chaplain of the prisons in the Republic of Bulgaria (1997-2002), as well as regional director for Europe and Central Asia of Prison Fellowship International (2011-2014).