Efter splittelsen af kirken, som blev løst gennem en kanonisk proces i 1998, har EF-Domstolen i Strasbourg afsagt en kendelse om det samme interne kirkelige problem i en sag, hvor den bulgarske ortodokse kirke ikke engang var respondent.
Following the schism within the Church which was resolved by canonical process in 1998, the ECJ in Strasbourg has issued a judgment on the same internal ecclesiastical problem in a matter in which the Bulgarian Orthodox Church was not even a respondent.