His Beatitude expresses condolences over the Cypriot Primate's death
On November 7, 2022, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kyiv and All Ukraine expressed his condolences to the members of the Holy Synod of the Cypriot Orthodox Church, the clergy and believers in connection with the death of Archbishop Chrysostomos II of Cyprus, the DECR website of the UOC reports.
In a letter to the Holy Synod of the Cypriot Orthodox Church, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry wrote that he prays for the forgiveness of all the sins of Archbishop Chrysostomos, voluntary and involuntary, and for the repose of the soul of the newly deceased, where there is no sickness, no sorrow, no mourn, but endless life only.
Earlier, the UOJ wrote that the head of the Cypriot Church, Archbishop Chrysostomos, had died.
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