Отношения между православни духовници и католици в българските земи през втората половина на XVII век
The Relations between Orthodox Clerics and Catholics in the Bulgarian Lands during the Second Half of the 17th Century

Summary/Abstract: A Bulgarian Catholic church organization was built during the second half of the 16th and the 17th c. In the Bulgarian lands. The tension created between Orthodox and Catholic people in the conditions of the domination of an alien faith of the Turkish rule posed a number of problems of a political, religious, financial and cultural character. On the basis of two Ottoman documents in the so-called Book of Complaints of 1675, reproduced in facsimile in Vienna in 1984, the authoress indicates the unlawful actions of the Orthodox clergy of the Sofia bishopric towards the Catholics in the same area. The differences that had arisen between the representatives of the two denomination are examined as seen by the Ottoman authorities who in this case assumed the role of an arbitrator.

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