Show LAST OF BULGARIAN third and the final man to hold held office hag ha recently passed away in sofia joseph I 1 by birth lazar latar whose death I 1 IB announced fr sona ad was the third and in reality the last of the bulgarian bulgaria beh the abo a la is older the than the bul and sri state and played a great part pact in canine calling it into being and ad extending its ita boun boundaries notes the fir firman establish ing ine the exer chate la is dated march 11 1870 the first was not chosen till t two WG years yeara later and held office tor for only five days his aars acrs r ruled rid tor for file alve years year and ad we was compelled led to r re sign when russia declared war twelve its da a later joseph was his ha promotion was extraordinarily rapid pid born in 1840 he was a journal let the th second aad run mada ad him sec rotary general to the in lie ha took orders order that year or on an the verv day when the patriarch bated the bulgarian church A month later he was waa an ar chiman it delto its in 1874 75 he was waa sent to the bishopric ot of giddin widdin andee and he tarr thereafter after fter returned to canh constantinople nople a as the ho right head hand of the in a 1876 g 6 he ban metropolitan or of lottchea and a beor later he was a man of great courage cool 1 lodgment judgment skilled diplomacy ut untiring ig patience and high organizing talent ho he earned carried the through the critical time of the war he resisted all efforts ot of turks greeks greeke and even shortsighted bulge rians nans to confine his authority to tho the territories of the new bulgarian state and he slowly lowly and nd steadily extended the sway we Y 0 of the th bulgarian bulgaria church chard in threce and macedonia and laid the foundation ot of the greater bulga bulgaria bulgala la the story of at hla his establishing new bishoprick bishoprics bish and emancipating the bul bill garlan schools bools from greek control I 1 Is such a chapter in diplomacy as aa only balkan chronicles chronic es can show the second balkan war virtually confined the authority of the el hate to a the t e limits in of the bulgarian stile state and ad it its importance top artance as a political dinati aution for or th the making of t the big g R bul I 1 ared mes garla gala appet apparently nt y disappeared matt chester cheater Gu guardian ardlan |