Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church congratulates His Beatitude Archbishop Hieronymos of Athens and All Greece on his Nameday

May 15 is the Nameday of His Beatitude Archbishop Hieronymos of Athens and All Greece. His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia congratulated the Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church on the commemoration day of his heavenly patron, St. Hieronymus of Stridon.

The text is given below.

Your Beatitude, beloved in the Lord brother and concelebrant at the altar of the Lord of Glory!

I wholeheartedly greet you with the commemoration day of your heavenly patron, St. Hieronymus of Stridon, a great teacher and father of the Church. Through his intercession and prayer may the All-Merciful Lord grant you strength to bear the heavy cross of primatial ministry to the good of the pious Greek flock.

With brotherly love in the Lord,

+ ALEXY,
PATRIARCH OF MOSCOW AND ALL RUSSIA