On July 3, his Holiness Patriarch of Bulgaria Neophyte received representatives of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, at their request. Were present Metropolitans Gabriel of Lovech, Nicholas of Plovdiv, Daniel of Vidin, and Bishop Bishop Gerasim of Melnik, chief secretary of the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Patriarchate. The delegation of the Ecumenical Patriarchate was made up of the Metropolitan of France Emmanuel and the Metropolitan of Smyrna Bartholomew. They conveyed the fraternal