..., Bulgarians ended up with ecclesiastical nationalism which aimed to preserve their ethno-religious identity by establishing a national Orthodox Church at the expense of splitting from the Ecumenical Patriarchate. The chapter reveals the main stages, features and actors of the ethno-philetism debate...

... Patriarch Orthodox Christianity Ecumenical Patriarchate Enlightenment Balkan National States Autocephaly Ottoman Empire Ethno-Philetism; Ethnomartyrs T he impact of the major force shaping European modernity in the nineteenth century, nationalism, upon the foremost institution around which Orthodox...