{"id":186590,"date":"2020-09-19T11:18:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T08:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mospat.ru\/?p=186590"},"modified":"2020-09-22T15:48:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T12:48:17","slug":"%d0%bf%d1%80%d0%b5%d0%b4%d1%81%d0%b5%d0%b4%d0%b0%d1%82%d0%b5%d0%bb%d1%8c-%d0%be%d0%b2%d1%86%d1%81-%d0%bf%d0%be%d0%b7%d0%b4%d1%80%d0%b0%d0%b2%d0%b8%d0%bb-%d1%81-%d1%8e%d0%b1%d0%b8%d0%bb%d0%b5%d0%b5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/2020\/09\/19\/news186590\/","title":{"rendered":"DECR chairman sends greetings to Metropolitan Grigorij of Vratsa of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church on the occasion of his jubilee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate\u2019s Department for External Church Relations, sent a letter to Metropolitan Grigorij of Vratsa on the occasion of his 50<sup>th<\/sup> birthday. The text of the message is given below.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Your Eminence,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dear Vladyka,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please accept my cordial greetings with your 50<sup>th<\/sup> birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Being a spiritual disciple of the elder Metropolitan Nathaniel of blessed memory, you went \u201cfrom strength to strength\u201d (Ps 84:7), with humility and zeal carrying out obediences in the diocese of Nevrokop, serving as protosynkellos and vicar of the diocese of Sofia, and later as rector of the Troyan Monastery.<\/p>\n<p>You are celebrating this memorable date at the ancient See of Vratsa, glorified by the ascetic deeds of St. Sophronius and other zealots of the holy paternal Orthodox faith.<\/p>\n<p>On the day of your jubilee I prayerfully wish to Your Eminence good health and unceasing help from Christ the Divine Chief Pastor, so that for many years in peace and welfare you may <em>rightly divide the word<\/em> of His <em>truth<\/em> for the good of your God-loving flock and the whole Bulgarian Orthodoxy.<\/p>\n<p>With brotherly love in the Lord,<\/p>\n<table width=\"643\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"188\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"455\"><strong>\/+Hilarion\/<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Metropolitan of Volokolamsk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chairman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Department for External Church Relations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Moscow Patriarchate<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate\u2019s Department for External Church Relations, sent a letter to Metropolitan Grigorij of Vratsa on the occasion of his 50th birthday. The text of the message is given below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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\/186590"}],"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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186590\/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=186590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}