Patriarch Daniel sent condolences to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I on Wednesday, after His Eminence Kallistos, Metropolitan of Diokleia, reposed in the Lord. The Patriarch of Romania called the recently-departed hierarch “an old friend of our Church and of ours, personally”.
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Bucharest, 24 August 2022
His Holiness BARTHOLOMEW,
Archbishop of Constantinople – New Rome,
Ecumenical Patriarch
Your Holiness,
With sadness, we have learned of the passing from this world, today, the 24th of August 2022, of His Eminence Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia, an old friend of our Church and of ours, personally, and a tireless promoter of Orthodoxy in the Western world, unifying theology with liturgical life and pastoral activity.
Particularily, we remember him as the erudite hierarch and the professor of Orthodox theology at the prestigious Oxford University and Chairman of the Institute of Christian Orthodox Studies in Cambridge for many years.
In this time of sadness, we address to Your Holiness and to the Holy Church of Constantinople our fraternal thoughts of consolation and pray the Lord Jesus Christ, Who has risen from the dead, to give to the soul of our brother hierarch Kallistos rest in the peace, light and love of the Most Holy Trinity!
May his memory be eternal from generation to generation!
With high esteem and brotherly love in Christ the Lord,
† DANIEL
Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church
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