Bulgarian delegation goes to audience with Pope Leo XIV in the Vatican

The visit of a Bulgarian parliamentary delegation led by the President of Parliament Mihaela Dotsova to Rome and the Vatican continues for the celebrations on the occasion of May 24 - Day of the Holy Brothers Cyril and Methodius, of the Bulgarian Alphabet, Education and Culture and of Slavic Literature. The culmination of the visit is this morning in the Vatican, when the delegation will have an audience with Pope Leo XIV. A meeting with the Vatican’s Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin is also planned.

Later, the Bulgarian parliamentary delegation will attend a solemn Orthodox liturgy in the Basilica of San Clemente and will bow before the relics of Saint Cyril. The MPs will also visit the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore and lay flowers in front of a memorial plaque in the temple, in which the Slavic alphabet and books received official recognition from the Vatican, the parliament's press center has reported.

Editor: Miglena Ivanova