His Beatitude Anastasios of Albania Sent a Letter of Support to Metropolitan Jonathan of Tulchyn and Bratslav

Information and Education Department of UOC – OCP News Service – 14/08/2023

Kyiv – Ukraine: The Information and Education Department of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church publishes the letter from His Beatitude Anastasios, the Primate of the Albanian Orthodox Church, who on 11 August 2023, through His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufriy of Kyiv and All Ukraine, sent to Metropolitan Jonathan of Tulchyn and Bratslav a letter with words of support and brotherly love in Christ.

‘With the deepest sorrow we follow the painful trials of Your beloved Eminence and Your chosen flock’, he writes in the letter. ‘We participate in Your sufferings and, to extend of our capabilities, we share where appropriate our testimony about the atrocities against the pious Orthodox holy clergy, the devout people, as well as the renowned sacred places in Ukraine.’

The Primate of the Albanian Orthodox Church assured of his fraternal prayers ‘that God strengthen You to “commend yourself as minister of God: in much patience, in tribulations, in needs, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments” (2 Cor. 6:4-5)’.

‘Our thoughts and supplications unceasingly are with You, so that, aligning Yourself with the chorus of the new martyrs, You also may face the present absurd persecution by Orthodox “by the Holy Spirit, by the word of truth, by the power of God… as unknown yet well known, as dying and behold we live, as chastened, and yet not killed” (2 Cor. 6:6-9)’.

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OCP News Service