Your Holiness, Most Holy Master and our merciful Father!
On behalf of the clergy, monastics, and laity of the Khanty-Mansiysk Metropolitanate and the Philippine-Vietnamese Diocese entrusted to me, please accept our heartfelt congratulations on the feast day of your heavenly patron, St. Cyril, Equal-to-the-Apostles, Teacher of the Slavs!
“Their sound has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world” (Psalm 19:5). Your entire life has followed the example of your patron. You devote much effort to enlightening the largest flock in the Orthodox world entrusted to you with the light of Christ’s Truth, selflessly serving the Lord and His Church.
With your prayer at the Throne of the Lord, Your Holiness, you tirelessly intercede before the Almighty for the reign of peace, harmony, and prosperity in society, and for the unity of the Church.
Your Holiness! Allow me to sincerely wish you that the strength, joy, and love you bestow upon us all through your sacrificial and inspired service will multiply within you, strengthening you for your patriarchal endeavor, which is possible only with the help and grace of God.
May you live long and blessed years, Your Holiness!
With filial love in Christ,
Pavel, Metropolitan of Manila and Hanoi, Administrator of the Diocese of the Philippines and Vietnam
