%0 Journal Article %T Attempts at Saving of the Bulgarian Church and National Unity in 1878 %J Annual of the Faculty of History of ¡±St. Cyril and St. Methodius¡± University of Veliko Tarnovo %D 2017 %X The legitimately guaranteed national unity in the 1870s, after the Russian- Turkish war of 1877¨C1878, the Bulgarian Exarchate was in crisis. According to international treaties of San Stefano and Berlin of 1878 the Exarchate¡¯s diocese was separated into several parts. Since the Exarchate was the result of a national movement, it was religious in form and had a political manner. So it became a national matter to save its unity as a part of the national one %K Bulgarian Exarchate^ Church^ Russian-Turkish war^ national movement^ clergy. %U http://journals.uni-vt.bg/fhyb/eng/vol1/iss1/46