His Holiness Patriarch Kirill greets Primate of Albanian Orthodox Church with anniversary of enthronement

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia congratulated His Beatitude Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana and All Albania on the anniversary of his enthronement.

HIS BEATITUDE ANASTASIOS

ARCHBISHOP OF TIRANA AND ALL ALBANIA

 

Your Beatitude,

Beloved in the Lord Brother and Concelebrant:

Please accept my heartfelt greetings with the anniversary of your enthronement.

Numerous and manifold are the fruits of your zealous Primatial labours. Having suffered torments at the hands of the theomachist authorities, the Albanian Orthodox Church found in Your Beatitude a wise helmsman and “good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine” (1 Tim 4:6).

Hereby I prayerfully wish you good health, spiritual strength, peace and unceasing help from the Lord in your lofty Primatial service.

With brotherly love in Christ,

+KIRILL

PATRIARCH OF MOSCOW AND ALL RUSSIA