Lazar Mladenov
| Lazar Mladenov | |
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| Born |
July 11, 1854 Bansko, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 4 March 1918 (aged 63) Rome, Italy |
| Nationality | Bulgarian |
| Occupation | Apostolic Vicar |
Lazar Mladenov (Bulgarian: Лазар Димитров Младенов) (July 11, 1854 – March 4, 1918) was a Bulgarian Orthodox priest and, later, a member of the Bulgarian Uniat Church in the Ottoman Empire and a convert to Eastern Catholicism.
He was born in Bansko, Bulgaria, to Dimitar Poparabadzhiev, a Bulgarian Exarchate priest and a teacher. Dimitar wrote for the newspaper Bulgaria and corresponded with Dragan Tsankov, who would become the fist Liberal Prime Minister of the country. Lazar's sister, Mila Dimitrova, was a member of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO).
Mladenov attended a French Catholic school in Thessaloniki, graduated from highschool in Turin and attended the French college in Constantinople. After his spiritual education in Paris, he was ordained by the Archbishop of Paris. In June 1878, he was part of the French delegation to the Congress of Berlin. Later that year, he was sent to teach at the St. Benedict college in Constantinople, preferred a priestly vocation and began to serve in Thessaloniki.
During the administrative reorganization of the Catholic Church in Bulgaria in 1883, he was appointed Apostolic Vicar for Catholic Bulgarians in Macedonia on June 12, 1883, and was consecrated by archbishop Nil Izvorov in Constantinople.
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