There are moments in history that sound like the plot of a political thriller, but they really happened. In the spring of 1861, a Bulgarian cleric returned from Rome as an archbishop, recognized by the Pope and the Ottoman authorities as the spiritual head of the Bulgarians who had united with Rome. Just a few weeks later, the same man disappeared from Constantinople and ended up in Odessa, and then in Kiev. His name was Joseph Sokolsky. For som…
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There are moments in history that sound like the plot of a political thriller, but they really happened. In the spring of 1861, a Bulgarian cleric returned from Rome as an archbishop, recognized by the Pope and the Ottoman authorities as the spiritual head of the Bulgarians who had united with Rome. Just a few weeks later, the same man disappeared from Constantinople and ended up in Odessa, and then in Kiev. His name was Joseph Sokolsky. For som…