# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-sokolsky
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:08:11.779Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-sokolsky"
name: "Joseph Sokolsky"
slug: "joseph-sokolsky"
description: "Joseph Sokolsky was the first senior Eastern Orthodox Bulgarian clergyman to convert to Catholicism, thus becoming a pioneer of the Bulgarian Byzantine Catholic Church. Sokolsky negotiated with the Vatican a formal union due to Phanariotes domination over Bulgarian Orthodoxy and gained Catholic recognition in 1861 when Pope Pius IX named him Archbishop for the Bulgarians of the Byzantine Rite. He was also accepted in that capacity by the Ottoman Empire."
tagline: "Bulgarian clergyman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/BASA-154K-1-2_Joseph_Sokolsky_(retouch).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Religious Figures"
  slug: "religious-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Religious Figure"
  slug: "religious-figure"
birthDate: "1786"
deathDate: "1879-09-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.19
  momentum:             2.824427480916031
  historical:           8.539381333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%99%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%84_%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9"
    title: "Йосиф Сокольський"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%89"
    title: "چوزيف سوكولسكى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%99%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%84_%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8"
    title: "Йосиф Соколски"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josif_Sokolski"
    title: "Josif Sokolski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Sokolsky"
    title: "Joseph Sokolsky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Sokolski"
    title: "Joseph Sokolski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosif_Sokolski"
    title: "Yosif Sokolski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%88%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%84_%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8"
    title: "Јосиф Соколски"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josif_Soko%C5%82ski"
    title: "Josif Sokołski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%84_%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9"
    title: "Иосиф Сокольский"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1708701"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump