In the meantime, some Bulgarian leaders tried to negotiate the establishment of a Bulgarian Uniate Church. The movement for union with Rome led to the initial recognition of a separate Bulgarian Catholic Millet by the Sultan in 1860. The Sultan issued a special decree  for that occasion. Although the movement initially gathered some 60,000 adherents, the subsequent establishment of the Bulgarian Exarchate reduced their number with some 75%. The Bulgarian "Church Struggle" was resolved finally with a Sultan decree in 1870, which established the Bulgarian Exarchate.  The act also instituted the Bulgarian Orthodox Millet - an entity combining the modern notion for a nation with the Ottoman principle of Millet. It also turned the Bulgarian Exarch into both a religious leader and an administrative head of the Millet. The new entity enjoyed internal cultural and administrative autonomy. However, it excluded non-Orthodox Bulgarians and, thus, failed to embrace all representatives of the Bulgarian ethnos. Scholars argue that the millet system was instrumental to transforming the Bulgarian Exarchate into an entity that promoted ethnoreligious nationalism amongst Orthodox Bulgarians. On 11 May 1872 in the Bulgarian St. Stephen Church in Constantinople, which had been closed by the Ecumenical Patriarch's order, the Bulgarian hierarchs, celebrated a liturgy, whereafter the autocephaly of the Bulgarian Church was declared. The decision on the unilateral declaration of autocephaly by the Bulgarian Church was not accepted by the Patriarchate of Constantinople. In this way, the term phyletism was coined at the Holy pan-Orthodox Synod that met in Istanbul on 10 August. The Synod issued an official condemnation of  ecclesiastical nationalism, and declared on 18 September the  Bulgarian Exarchate schismatic.

Question: Which happened first, the initial recognition of a separate Bulgarian Catholic Millet by the Sultan, or the Sultan decree, which established the Bulgarian Exarchate?
Answer: Sultan decree in 1870

Question: How many adherents were left after the establishment of the Bulgarian Exarchate?
Answer: 15000

Question: How many years after the movement for union with Rome that led to the initial recognition of a spearate Bulgarian Catholic Millet by the Sultan was the Bulgarian "Church Struggle" resolved with a Sultan decree?
Answer: 10

Question: How many months after the autocephaly of the Bulgarian Church declared was the term phyletism coined at the Holy pan-Orthodox Synod that met in Istanbul?
Answer: 3

Question: How many years after the Bulgarian Catholic Millet was the Bulgarian Exarchate established?
Answer: 10

Question: How many functions did the Bulgarian Exarch have?
Answer: 2

Question: How many days passed between the coining of the term phyletism and the declaration of the Bulgarian Exarchate schismatic?
Answer: 38

Question: How many years after the recognition of a separate Bulgarian Catholic Millet by the Sultan did the Sultan issue a degree to establish the Bulgarian Exarchate?
Answer: 10

Question: Which was established first, the Bulgarian St. Stephen Church or the declaration of the Bulgarian Church?
Answer: Bulgarian St. Stephen Church

Question: How many days after the Synod met in August did they issue the Bulgarian Exarchate schismatic?
Answer: 39

Question: How many years did the Bulgarian "Church Struggle" last?
Answer: 10

Question: How many days after meeting in Istanbul did the Synod declare the Bulgarian Exarchate schismatic?
Answer: 39

Question: How many years after the initial recognition of a separate Bulgarian Catholic Millet by the Sultan was the Bulgarian "Church Struggle" resolved with a Sultan decree?
Answer: 10

Question: How many months after he Bulgarian St. Stephen Church in Constantinople celebrated a liturgy was it declared the Bulgarian Exarchate schismatic?
Answer: 3