The Academy congratulates His Holiness Patriarch Kirill on the thirteenth anniversary of his enthronement

To His Holiness

Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia

KIRILL

Your Holiness!

On this solemn day for the entirety Russian Orthodox Church, let us express our best wishes and sincere congratulations on behalf of teachers, mentors and students of the Moscow Theological Academy with the thirteenth anniversary of your enthronement.

The past years have become a time of your selfless, fruitful and soul-saving service. Having taken over the control of the church ship, you have led it through waves of the sea of ​​life showing the archpastors, pastors and all the faithful an example of sincere piety, true faith, hope and evangelical love. 

Your entire flock sees you as a zealous guardian of Orthodox unity, inter-church and international cooperation. Your voice, calling for sacred fidelity to the apostolic canons and patristic traditions, resounds throughout the Christian world.

Taking an opportunity, I would like to express my sincere and deep gratitude for your archpastoral care, paternal attention and active participation in the life of the Moscow Theological Academy.

I would like to wish you, Your Holiness, the strength, enduring spiritual joy and inexhaustible God’s help leading you in your difficult Patriarchal job for the benefit of your large flock in the Fatherland and beyond.

Many Good Years!

Asking for your archpastoral prayer and blessing,

THEODORITE, 

The Bishop of Zvenigorod, 

Rector of the Moscow Theological Academy, 

with teachers and students

on February 1, 2022