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President Purvanov will travel to the Vatican to meet Pope Benedict XVI

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President Purvanov will travel to the Vatican to meet Pope Benedict XVI

Pope Benedict XVI 
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Bulgarian President Georgi Purvanov is to visit the Vatican escorted by his wife Zorka Purvanova. The official visit will entail a trip to the Sovereign Military Order of St John of Jerusalem, Rhodes and Malta.

While in the Vatican, Purvanov will have an audience with Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican Secretary of State and Camerlengo Tarcisio Bertone, and he will then lay a wreath on the tomb of John Paul the Second, buried in St Peter's Basilica in Rome. 

At Aventine Hill in Rome, President Purvanov will be met by Matthew Festing, OBE, TD, DL, the 79th prince and grand master of the sovereign military order of Malta. Both heads of state will conduct talks in which the prince will be awarded the Bulgarian Stara Planina medal, which will be followed by an official dinner hosted by the prince in honour of Mr and Mrs Purvanov.

Also on the schedule is a trip to the Santi Vincenzo e Anastasio, a former parish church on the Quirinale. This has been granted to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church for their use.

The Bulgarian delegation consists of the Minister of Culture, professor Stefan Dimitrov, the permanent Bulgarian representative to UNESCO, Irina Bokova, the Archbishop of Rousse, Neofit, episcopal head of the episcopacy of the Catholic church in Bulgaria, Hristo Proikov and Deputy Foreign Minister, Lyubomir Kyuchukov.

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