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Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, sent Paschal greetings to His Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, His Beatitude Pope and Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria, His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch, His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem, His Holiness and Beatitude Catholics Patriarch Iliya II of All Georgia, His Holiness Patriarch Irenej of Serbia, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of Romania, His Holiness Patriarch Neofit of Bulgaria, His Beatitude Archbishop Chrysostomos II of Cyprus, His Beatitude Archbishop Hieronymus II of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana and All Albania, His Beatitude Metropolitan Sava of Warsaw and All Poland, and His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon of All America and Canada. The text is given below.

I send to you my heartfelt congratulations on the radiant feast of Christ’s Holy Passover:

CHRIST IS RISEN!

‘The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world’ (Jn 1:29) surrenders his Body to be sacrificed on the altar of Golgotha so that he may descend with his most pure soul into the depths of Hades and lead its captives to his unfading light. The Paschal banquet that he has prepared for us heralds the joy of eternal communion with God even now on earth.

Please accept my wishes of the great mercies from the risen Christ for you and all the children of the Church entrusted to you by God.

With constant reverence and love in the risen Lord,

/+Hilarion/

Metropolitan of Volokolamsk

Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s

Department for External Church Relations