{"id":113728,"date":"2014-12-25T12:23:11","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T09:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mospat.ru\/?p=113728"},"modified":"2014-12-26T13:06:46","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T10:06:46","slug":"mitropolit-ilarion-napravil-predstoyatelyu-gruzinskojj-pravoslavnojj-cerkvi-pozdravitelnoe-poslanie-v-svyazi-s-godovshhinojj-intronizacii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/2014\/12\/25\/news113728\/","title":{"rendered":"Metropolitan Hilarion sends greetings to Primate of Georgian Orthodox Church on the occasion of anniversary of his enthronement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate\u2019s Department for External Church Relations, greeted His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia\u00a0II, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, with the anniversary of his elevation to the Patriarchal throne. The text of the message is given below.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Your Holiness and Beatitude:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is with sincere joy that I congratulate you on the anniversary of your primatial ministry.<\/p>\n<p><em>The good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep<\/em> (Jn 10:11). Your life and your primatial labours are a vivid example of sacrificial service to the Church and of preaching Christ\u2019s Gospel. During many years you, with your wisdom and experience, have been steering the church ship to the salutary haven. Yet, the force navigating this ark \u2013 the invincible force of Christ\u2019s charity that <em>never faileth <\/em>(1 Cor 13:8) \u2013 is still acting in you, inspiring you to new endeavours.<\/p>\n<p>I have warm recollections of our first meeting, as well as of our later numerous meetings and conversations, and prayerfully wish Your Holiness and Beatitude good health and joy in the Holy Spirit. I also wish to the holy Georgian Church spiritual flourishing and mercy from the All-Generous Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>With respectful love in the Lord,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>+Hilarion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Metropolitan of Volokolamsk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Chairman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Department for External Church Relations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Moscow Patriarchate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate\u2019s Department for External Church Relations, greeted His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, with the anniversary of his elevation to the Patriarchal throne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":103064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,1,2,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}