On December 15, 2017, the St.Sinod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church appointed archimandrite Samuel the new abbot of the monastery for.
 
                                                                                           
       Archimandrite Samuel was born in 1972 in the village of Gorno Ablanovo, Rousse district, where he spends most of his childhood. He lived in Russia for some time, where he completed the secondary school. He turns to God at his twenty. He received medical education in the town of Varna and worked as a sanitary inspector. He graduated the Faculty of Theology of Tarnovo University some years later. At the age of 32, he finally decided to dedicate his life to Jesus Christ and went to the Monastery of “St. John of Rila” near the village of Skrino where taking the vows in 2008 and consecutively climbs the church hierarchy - Ierodeacon, Ieromonah, Archimandrite. Archim.Samuel goes to ministry in Vidin Bishopric and serves as chairman of the ancient temple "St. Petka" in Vidin and in the metropolitan church "St.Nikola” since 2009 until his appointment as Abbot of the Bachkovo Monastery ".