Kiril of Varna, Bulgarian metropolitan (d. 2013)
Metropolitan Kiril (Bulgarian: Митрополит Кирил Варненски и Великопреславски, secular name Bogomil Petrov Kovachev, Bulgarian: Богомил Петров Ковачев); June 8, 1954 – July 9, 2013), was the Bulgarian Orthodox metropolitan of Varna and Veliki Preslav, Bulgaria.
He was named metropolitan in 1988. He was interim patriarch until February 24, 2013, following the death of Bulgaria's Patriarch Maxim in 2012.
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