Serbian Patriarch sends 80th birthday greetings to Metropolitan Onuphry
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According to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s Information and Education Department, Serbian Patriarch Porfirije sent his congratulations to His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufriy on his 80th birthday.
On behalf of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Porfirije extended "the most heartfelt prayerful wishes for long and zealous service to God and to the much-suffering people entrusted to His Beatitude in the sister Ukrainian Orthodox Church."
"From the depths of our hearts, we pray first and foremost that the God of love and Good Shepherd sends peace to your land and to the hearts of your entrusted flock, grants you boundless love, physical strength, spiritual fortitude, and constant help in your difficult yet God-pleasing archpastoral service. Many blessed years, Your Beatitude!" stated the Primate of the Serbian Church.
As previously reported by the UOJ, Polish Metropolitan Sawa also congratulated Metropolitan Onuphry on his jubilee.
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