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Bulgarian Orthodox Patriarchate
The restoration of the Bulgarian Patriarchate in 1235, confirmed by the Council of Lampsacus, established Tarnovo as a sovereign spiritual rival to both Constantinople and Rome. By the 14th century, the Patriarchate functioned as the ideological spine of the Asen and Shishman dynasties, utilizing its autocephalous status to provide divine legitimacy that transcended the political fragmentation of the Bulgarian lands. From its seat on Tsarevets Hill, the Church managed an expansive administrative network of eparchies and monasteries, such as the Zograf Monastery on Mount Athos, which served as repositories for the Bulgarian recension of Church Slavonic.
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Definitionin_game/common/advances/country_BUL.txt:1
3icon = patriarchate_of_lithuania
5potential = {
6OR = {
}
}