Stefan I of Bulgaria

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His Holiness Stefan I
Bulgarian Exarch and Metropolitan of Sofia

Church	Bulgarian Orthodox Church (Bulgarian Exarchate)
See	Sofia
Installed	21 January 1945
Term ended	6 September 1948
Predecessor	Neophyte of Vidin
Successor	Mihail of Dorostol
Personal details
Born	Stoyan Popgeorgiev Shokov (1878-09-19)September 19, 1878 Shiroka Laka, Ottoman Empire
Died	May 12, 1957(1957-05-12) (aged 78) Banya, Bulgaria
Buried	Bachkovo Monastery
Nationality	Bulgarian
Denomination	Eastern Orthodox Church
Residence	Sofia, Bulgaria

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.^[1]^[2] He was awarded Order of the White Eagle and other decorations.^[3]

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Sources

^ Bar-Zohar, Michael (1998). Beyond Hitler's Grasp. The Heroic Rescue of Bulgaria's Jews. Massachusetts: Adams Media Corporation. ISBN 1580620604.
^ Popgueorguiev, Stoyan (Metropolitan Stefan) The Righteous Among The Nations, Popgueorguiev, Stoyan (Metropolitan Stefan)
^ Acović, Dragomir (2012). Slava i čast: Odlikovanja među Srbima, Srbi među odlikovanjima. Belgrade: Službeni Glasnik. p. 599.