Macedonian Church Synod to UOC Primate: We see you as a good shepherd

Archbishop Stefan of Ohrid and Macedonia. Photo: news.church.ua

Archbishop Stefan of Ohrid and Macedonia, on behalf of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Macedonian Orthodox Church, the Ohrid Archbishopric, and personally, congratulated His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufriy of Kyiv and All Ukraine on his Name Day. According to the UOC Information and Education Department, the congratulatory message was sent on June 25, 2024.

“We congratulate you on the feast day of your heavenly patron, St. Onuphrius the Great, with sincere wishes for good health and abundant God's grace in your primatial ministry to the Church of Christ,” the letter reads.

His Beatitude Archbishop Stefan also added, “Your labors and prayers as the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church strengthen the faithful, showing you as a good shepherd of the flock entrusted to you by God.”

As reported by the UOJ, 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 and the Primate of the Orthodox Church in America.

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