Metropolitan

The Sofia municipal company "Metropolitan" is nearing the deadline for public procurement bids to select an architectural-engineering bureau for designing the extension of the metro's second line after the "Vitosha" station in the "Hladilnika" area.

A Greek Orthodox priest who had reportedly just been defrocked in a Church Court at Athens' Petraki Monastery threw acid at and injured six of the Metropolitan bishops who sat on the Synodal Court.

CVC Capital Partners, known in Greece mainly due to its acquisition of the Hygeia and Metropolitan hospitals, has announced that its subsidiary CVC Capital VII has agreed to acquire the activities of D-Marin, a company serving yachts in the Mediterranean and the United Arab Emirates, from Turkish group Dogus. That means CVC is now a partner of Lamda Development.

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, spiritual leader to the worlds 300 million Orthodox Christians, made his first official visit to Iceland from October 12-15, 2017 as the official guest and keynote speaker of the 2017 Arctic Circle Assembly.

Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden and All Scandinavia visited the cities of Jönköping and Linköping in Sweden during the Second Week of Lent. It was his fourth archpastoral visit to those cities since his enthronement in June 2014.

His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden and All Scandinavia made his 8th archpastoral visit to Oslo on the weekend of Fri. January 27 – Sun. January 29, 2017.

The subway in Bulgaria's capital Sofia recently started giving bilingual audio directions - in both Bulgarian and English.

Since the subway extension to the airport is scheduled to launch in April, an increased influx of foreigners is expected in town, according to an official statement released Monday.