Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church sends a message to Locum Tenens of the Romanian patriarchal throne Metropolitan Daniel and Holy Synod of the Ro

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Romanian Orthodox Church


The Most Reverend Daniel
Archbishop of Iasi
Metropolitan of Moldova and Bukovina

The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church

Your Eminence, Fellow-Archpastors beloved in Christ!The feelings of grief and great loss have befallen the Romanian Patriarchate and, together with it, the whole Orthodox world. The Russian Orthodox Church also grieves as we are parting with our dear Brother and Friend. His Beatitude Patriarch Teoctist, an ardent worker in the field of Christ, proclaimed the word of God’s truth in the holy Romanian Church for twenty one years and confidently guided his large Orthodox flock to salvation. His Beatitude’s service for the Church of God began at the hard times of persecution by the authorities who were guided by the ideology of atheism. At that time of temptation and oppression, the future Patriarch proved himself as a person faithful to God,

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