Stefan Tsankov


Stefan Stanchev Tsankov was a Bulgarian Orthodox theologian and Archpriest of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.

Life and work

Tsankov studied the liturgy and spirituality of the Orthodox Church in an Orthodox seminary and was ordained a presbyter. Later he also received the rank of protopresbyter or archpriest.
Tsankov published theological books and took part in lectures at home and abroad. He describes Orthodox Christian worship the following way:

In the liturgy of the Orthodox Church... are doctrine and experience, symbol and reality, history and present, God and man united ''.

Through the results of his theological research, he was given a professorship at Sofia University in Bulgaria. He was a member of the Christian Peace Conference and worked in Prague at his First and Second Meetings in 1958 and 1959.
On the occasion of the 120th anniversary of the University of Sofia and the 85th anniversary of its Theological Faculty, an international conference in memory of Stefan Tsankov was held.

German language works