Patriarch Maxim of Bulgaria

An orhodox priest kisses the late Patriarch Maxim of <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PLGEO00000028" title="Bulgaria" href="/topic/intl/bulgaria-PLGEO00000028.topic">Bulgaria's</a> Orthodox Church during funeral service in the golden-domed "Alexander Nevski" cathedral in Sofia. Bulgaria bid last farewell on Friday to its Christian Orthorox religious leader for over 40 years, Patriarch Maxim, who died on Tuesday at the age of 98 and was buried in his beloved Troyan monastery in northern Bulgaria.

( Getty Images / November 9, 2012 )

An orhodox priest kisses the late Patriarch Maxim of Bulgaria's Orthodox Church during funeral service in the golden-domed "Alexander Nevski" cathedral in Sofia. Bulgaria bid last farewell on Friday to its Christian Orthorox religious leader for over 40 years, Patriarch Maxim, who died on Tuesday at the age of 98 and was buried in his beloved Troyan monastery in northern Bulgaria.

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