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.[1] He was interim patriarch until February 24, 2013, following the death of Bulgaria's Patriarch Maxim in 2012.
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