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While remaining chancellor, Archim. Neofit was [[consecration of a bishop|consecrated]] the [[titular bishop]] of Levkas on [[December 8]], 1985 and served as the second [[vicar]] of the Sofia [[diocese|eparchy]]. On [[December 1]], 1989, Bp. Neofit was appointed rector of the St. Clement of Ochrid Theological Academy in Sofia. On [[July 26]], 1991, he was chosen the first dean of the reestablished Theological Faculty at Sofia University. On [[January 27]], 1992, he was named Secretary of the [[Holy Synod]] of the Church of Bulgaria and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the St. Alexander Nevsky Patriarchal Cathedral.
On [[March 27]], 1994, Bp. Neofit was elected Metropolitan of the Eparchy of Dorostol and Cherven and in 2001, after the eparchy had been divided into two eparchies, he was appointed Metropolitan of the Eparchy of Rousse on [[December 17]], 2001. Following the death of Patr. Maxim on [[November 6]], 2012, Metr. Neofit was elected Patriarch of Bulgaria on [[February 24]] , 2013 and enthroned later that day.
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