Catholic Church "Holy Trinity" Asenovo village

Overview

Holy Trinity is a Christian church in Asenovo, Northern Bulgaria, part of the Nikopol Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church. The church is a parish church.

After the defeat of the Chiprovtsi uprising in 1688, the surviving inhabitants of the Chiprovtsi Catholic villages emigrated to the north and west outside the borders of the Bulgarian lands. In 1741 a small part of them reached Banat and settled in Vinga. Unlike other refugees, who were gradually assimilated by the local ethnic environment, the settlers in Vinga retained their Bulgarian identity.

The Law on the Population of Uninhabited Lands in Bulgaria was adopted in May 1880 and amended in December 1891, giving them the opportunity to return to their homeland. In 1889 some of the inhabitants of Vinga returned to Bulgaria and after two unsuccessful attempts in various places in 1892 laid the foundations of the village of Assenovo. Initially, 204 Catholic families settled in the village. Even with the relocation, the village is characterized by homes with interior design of European type - beds, tables and dining rooms.

In 1894 the first parish priest was appointed in Asenovo, the Belgian Father Pavel Corselis.

In 1928 the village had 240 families with approximately 1300 people.

In 1952, the Asenovo priest Jeronim Lukov Serafimov, a native of the village of Oresh, was sentenced to 12 years in prison in one of a series of trials against the Catholic clergy. He was replaced by Father Isidor Antonov Delin, who moved with his Vingan family to Asenovo, and served in the village until the end of his life in 1955.

At the end of the 1970s, Father Nedyalko Romanov was appointed parish priest of the parish. He has served in the parish for more than 20 years.