The visit of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to Bulgaria put on the agenda many issues and there was a controversial response to awarding him an order by the Bulgarian President. According to the information disseminated in the Bulgarian media, Bartholomew has forbidden the performing of services in the Bulgarian language in the church of "St. George" in Edirne, the reason for this being the refusal of the Bulgarian state to remove the monument of Antim I in the courtyard of the other Bulgarian church, "Sts. Konstantin and Elena".