His Holiness Patriarch Kirill congratulates Primate of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church on his Nameday
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has sent the following greeting to His Holiness Patriarch Neofit of Bulgaria:
Your Holiness, beloved in the Lord Brother and Concelebrant:
I cordially greet You with Your Nameday.
Your life has been filled with selfless work for the consolidation of Orthodoxy on the Bulgarian land, and because of this work You, Your Holiness, have gained high authority of both clerics and lay persons of Your Church.
May the All-Bountiful Lord through prayerful intercession of Your heavenly patron the holy martyr Neofit grant Your Holiness ‘great joy and consolation in love’ (Philem 1:7) and strengthen You physically and spiritually by bestowing on you His inexhaustible aid in Your patriarchal labours.
With invariable brotherly love in the Lord,
+ KIRILL
Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia |