Petko Jordanov Christov

Petko Jordanov Christov (Bulgarian: Петко Йорданов Христов), O.F.M.Conv. (born 9 October 1950 in Velcevo, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria) is the current bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nicopoli.

Coat of arms of Petko Jordanov Christov

Petko Jordanov Christov studied at the Professional School of Engineering, Architecture and Geodesy "Angel Popov" in Veliko Tarnovo, in the fields of civil engineering and architecture.

From 1977 to 1985 in Bulgaria he studied to become a priest and was ordained on 15 December 1985 by Bishop Samuel Dzhundrin. In 1990 Christov gave his first vows in the Order of Franciscans on 15 December 1993. He served in parishes in Belene and Tranchovitsa. On 18 October 1994 Christov was consecrated by Pope John Paul II as Bishop of Nikopol. On 6 January 1995 he was ordained in the St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican by John Paul II, with Cardinals Giovanni Battista Re and Jorge María Mejía being his co-consecrators.

Petko Jordanov Christov is president of the Catholic charity Caritas in Bulgaria and member of the Episcopal Conference of Bulgaria.

In the Episcopal Conference of Bulgaria is the chairman of the following committees:

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gollark: You could use any image and just add a ZIP with `__main__.py` in it on the end.
gollark: In this, yes.
gollark: This is just a ZIP concatted on the end, but if you muck with the formats a lot you could probably use some of the image data to store code.
gollark: So you can run this (`python3 logo96.png`) and it prints hello world, and as you can see it's a valid image.
gollark: <@!336962240848855040> So I don't know if any image format will let you stick a shebang at the start, *but* python apparently happily runs `__main__.py` from ZIP files. And ZIP files are backwards and work fine at the end of an image.

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