His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II condoles with Metropolitan Laurus on the decease of Bishop Alexander (Mileant)

Bishop Alexander of Buenos-Aires and South America (The Russian Church Outside of Russia) passed to the Lord after long and hard illness on the night between the 12^th and 13^th of September.

His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia presented his condolences to Metropolitan Laurus, Chairman of the Bishops’ Council of the Russian Church Outside of Russia.

His Eminence Laurus

Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York

First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia

Your Eminence,

Accept my sincere condolences on the premature death of Bishop Alexander.

I pray to All-merciful God to rest His Excellence where the Just repose.

+Alexy,

Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia