Head of POC congratulates UOC Primate on anniversary of his enthronement
Metropolitan Savva. Photo: foma.ru
On August 17, 2021, the Primate of the Polish Orthodox Church, His Beatitude Metropolitan Savva of Warsaw and All Poland, congratulated the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry, on the 7th anniversary of his enthronement, according to the Information and Education Department of the UOC.
Metropolitan Savva congratulated His Beatitude Onuphry on the seventh anniversary of the succession to the See of the Metropolitans of Kiev and All Ukraine and turned with a prayer to the Pastor Lord Jesus Christ, “to give Your Beatitude His omnipotent blessing to overcome any kind of difficulties emanating from your fellow countrymen and foreigners, which hamper the preservation of unity of the Holy Church and the Ukrainian people.”
“Wishing you a lot of spiritual and physical strengths. May God help you, dear Vladyka Metropolitan!” wrote the Primate of the Polish Church.
Earlier, the UOJ wrote that Patriarch Kirill congratulated His Beatitude Onuphry on the anniversary of his enYhronement.
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