Honorific-Prefix: | His Holiness |
Stefan I | |
Bulgarian Exarch and Metropolitan of Sofia | |
Church: | Bulgarian Orthodox Church (Bulgarian Exarchate) |
See: | Sofia |
Enthroned: | 21 January 1945 |
Ended: | 6 September 1948 |
Predecessor: | Neophyte of Vidin |
Successor: | Mihail of Dorostol |
Birth Name: | Stoyan Popgeorgiev Shokov |
Birth Date: | 19 September 1878 |
Birth Place: | Shiroka Laka, Ottoman Empire |
Death Place: | Banya, Bulgaria |
Buried: | Bachkovo Monastery |
Nationality: | Bulgarian |
Religion: | Eastern Orthodox Church |
Residence: | Sofia, Bulgaria |
Stefan I was a Bulgarian prelate. He was elected Metropolitan of Sofia in 1922 and, from 1945, also served as Exarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. He actively contributed to the rescue of the Bulgarian Jews in World War II.[1] [2] He was awarded Order of the White Eagle and other decorations.[3]