Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations congratulates His Eminence Kornily on his election to the high office of head of the Russian Orthodox Old Belief Church

Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations congratulates His Eminence Kornily on his election to the high office of head of the Russian Orthodox Old Belief Church

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Archbishop Kornily (Titov) of Kazan and Vyatka was elected primate of the Russian Orthodox Old Belief Church on October 18, 2005.

Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations, sent the following congratulatory message to the newly-elected Metropolitan Kornily of Moscow and All Russia:

To: The Most Reverend Kornily
Old Belief Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia
Your Eminence,

I sincerely congratulate you on your election to the high office of the head of the Russian Orthodox Old Belief Church and elevation to the rank of Old Belief Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia. May the All-Merciful Lord give you spiritual strength and physical health in your new church ministry.

I hope for further consolidation of fraternal relations between our two Churches so that the spirit of mutual understanding and goodwill established recently in our relations may grow.

With brotherly love in Christ,

Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad
Chairman Department for External Church Relations
Moscow Patriarchate