Primate of Serbian Church congratulates His Beatitude Onufriy on Name Day

Primate of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Porfirije. Photo: spc.rs

His Holiness Patriarch Porfirije, Primate of the Serbian Orthodox Church, congratulated His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufriy of Kyiv and All Ukraine on his Name Day. According to the Information and Education Department of the UOC, Patriarch Porfirije sent his congratulations on behalf of the entire Serbian Orthodox Church.

"Despite numerous difficulties, trials, and sufferings that the Church in Ukraine is currently facing, you, as the Good Shepherd (John 10:14) of Christ the Savior, continue to spiritually unite the archpastors, pastors, monks, and the people entrusted to you," the letter reads.

The Serbian Patriarch said he offers prayers to the Venerable Onuphrius, the heavenly patron of the Primate of the UOC, "for spiritual and physical health, to the joy of the pious clergy and the entrusted flock, heartily exclaiming: Many years, Your Beatitude!"

As the UOJ reported, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufriy of Kyiv and All Ukraine was also congratulated on his Name Day by the Primate of the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia, the Primate of the Orthodox Church in America, Archbishop Stefan of Ohrid and Macedonia on behalf of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Macedonian Orthodox Church - Ohrid Archbishopric.

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