{"id":175709,"date":"2019-06-25T16:31:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T13:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mospat.ru\/?p=175709"},"modified":"2019-06-28T15:14:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T12:14:44","slug":"%d0%bf%d0%be%d0%b7%d0%b4%d1%80%d0%b0%d0%b2%d0%bb%d0%b5%d0%bd%d0%b8%d0%b5-%d0%bf%d1%80%d0%b5%d0%b4%d1%81%d1%82%d0%be%d1%8f%d1%82%d0%b5%d0%bb%d1%8f-%d0%bf%d1%80%d0%b0%d0%b2%d0%be%d1%81%d0%bb%d0%b0%d0%b2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/2019\/06\/25\/news175709\/","title":{"rendered":"Primate of Orthodox Church in America greets His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufry of Kiev and All Ukraine with his Name Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the message sent to His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufry of Kiev and All Ukraine, His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon of All America and Canada greeted him with the commemoration day of his heavenly patron, St. Onuphrius the Great, and with his 75th<\/sup> birthday. The text of the message is given below:<\/em><\/p>\n

Your Beatitude,
\nDear Brother in Christ and Concelebrant:<\/p>\n

On this, the feast day of Saint Onufry the Great, we congratulate Your Beatitude on behalf of all the hierarchs, clergy, and faithful of the Orthodox Church in America.<\/p>\n

Looking forward to Your Beatitude\u2019s 75th Jubilee, we ask our Lord and Savior to strengthen in you the good cheer, health, wisdom and peace needed to persevere in your archpastoral ministry.\u00a0 May your ministry bring the love of Jesus Christ to all those given to Your Beatitude\u2019s care.\u00a0We pray that you and your faithful people\u2014the bishops, parish clergy, monastics, and laity\u2014may nurture reconciliation, peace, and mutual love in the Ukrainian nation.<\/p>\n

Your ministry as a monastic and priest, as a diocesan bishop and now as first hierarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church followed the example given by your heavenly patron.\u00a0Your Beatitude has met the challenges and the struggles of this world with love, peace and patience, truly being a man who is \u201ccontinually good.\u201d\u00a0 Our prayer is that our God, Who is merciful to all, will grant to you, as he did to Saint Onufry in the desert, shade from the heat and tribulations of this world, nourishment from the love of the faithful who surround you for the continuation of your ministry, and a guardian angel to lead you in all your endeavors.<\/p>\n

With our representative to the Feast of Saint Onufry the Great we are sending to you the holy relic of Saint Sebastian Dabovich, the holy missionary priest canonized by His Holiness, Patriarch Irinej of Serbia.\u00a0 Archimandrite Sebastian served as a missionary in America in collaboration with Saint Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow during the years of Patriarch Tikhon\u2019s episcopal service in America.\u00a0 Continuing his priestly ministry in Yugoslavia, Saint Archimandrite Sebastian reposed there in 1940 and was buried at the Monastery of Zicha.\u00a0 In 2007 his remains were brought back to California for reburial.\u00a0 Saint Sebastian\u2019s journey is a sign of the connections between the Orthodox peoples of the Old Word and the New World, a sign of the missionary calling of the Holy Orthodox Faith, a sign of the unity of Orthodoxy.<\/p>\n

The history of the Orthodox Church in America is deeply connected to Orthodoxy in Ukraine.\u00a0 Among the many Orthodox clergy and bishops who came to America from Ukraine is our late Metropolitan Leonty (Turkevich), born in a priestly family in Kremenetz and educated in the Kyiv Theological Academy.\u00a0 Today, many of those who emigrate to America from Ukraine are now parishioners of the Orthodox Church in America.\u00a0 Our participation in the major Orthodox events and celebrations in Ukraine is an important way to symbolize that we are not strangers and aliens to one another, but members together of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church.<\/p>\n

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God the Father, and the communion of the Holy Spirit unite us all\u2014in America, in Ukraine, and in the whole world.<\/p>\n

With love and brotherly affection,<\/p>\n

+ TIKHON
\nArchbishop of Washington
\nMetropolitan of All America and Canada<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In the message sent to His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufry of Kiev and All Ukraine, His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon of All America and Canada greeted him with the commemoration day of his heavenly patron, St. Onuphrius the Great, and with his 75th birthday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":175711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175709"}],"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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}