Patriarch Kirill greets Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk on the occasion of his Name Day
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has sent the following message of greetings to Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations and rector of Sts Cyril and Methodius’s Church Post-Graduate and Doctoral School, on the occasion of his Name Day:
The Most Rev. Hilarion
Metropolitan of Volokolamsk
Head of the Department for External Church Relations
Rector of the Sts Cyril and Methodius Church Post-Graduate and Doctoral School
Your Eminence,
On the commemoration day of your heavenly patron, St. Hilarion the New, I would like to greet you cordially and to wish you prayerfully good health, peace, success and joy in the Lord. The All-Generous Creator has endowed you with many talents, which you have dedicated entirely to His Holy Church, bearing witness before the world to the beauty of Orthodoxy by profound theological studies and harmonious music.
May Christ the Giver of Life renew you physical and spiritual strength for further zealous archpastoral ministry in all the important tasks entrusted to you by the Supreme Authority of the Church.
With love in the Lord,
+ Kirill
Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia