Until now we had metropolitans from DS.
Now a KGB patriarch has taken office.
This is recognition for the Bulgarian church.
The services used to recruit priests, now they don't. But the Kremlin's foreign services are also recruiting. Pops are important to them. Although Bishop Daniil was an open agent of Russia. Becoming a patriarch was more important for Russia than for Bulgaria.
This is what journalist Ivan Bakalov commented on his Facebook page on the occasion of the election of the new Patriarch Daniil. Here are more of his thoughts:
There are serious reasons for the church to split after this operation of installing His Holiness Daniel. And it probably won't be bad. To get rid of religion not to be confused with the secular state. What are these priests and muftis at every state or municipal event.