His Holiness Patriarch Kirill congratulates Archbishop Leo of Karelia and All Finland on his Name Day

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia sent the following greeting to Archbishop Leo:

Your Eminence, dear Vladyka:

I cordially greet You with Your Name day.

May the Almighty Lord who has called you to labours as head of the Autonomous Orthodox Church of Finland grant Your Eminence his all-strengthening help in bearing the cross of your primatial ministry being ‘a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine’ (1 Tim 4:6).

With love in the Lord,

/+KIRILL/

Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia