December 10, 2012
Metropolitan Hilarion congratulated Bishop George of the Fourth Anniversary of His Hierarchal Consecration

On Friday, December 7, the feast of the Holy Great Martyr Catherine, the First Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad, His Eminence Hilarion, Metropolitan of Eastern America & New York, congratulated his vicar, His Grace, Eastern American Diocesan vicar Bishop George of Mayfield, on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the latter’s consecration to the episcopacy. The congratulatory letter is available below. Also available to visitors of the diocesan website are photographs from Bishop George’s consecration.

Your Grace,
Dear Brother in the Lord,

On this joyous day for our Diocese, we send Your Grace our heartfelt congratulations on the fourth anniversary of your episcopal consecration. By the Mercy of God, you have faithfully carried out your archpastoral duties by selflessly giving yourself entirely over to the flock in service of Christ’s Holy Church. Your prospering holy monastery serves as a testament to the fatherly love that you have for the monastics that have been entrusted to you by God, who know you as a wise and gentle shepherd.

May the Lord grant you many years of health and renewed spiritual strength to continue carrying your weighty archpastoral cross.

With brotherly love in Christ,

+HILARION
Metropolitan of Eastern America & New York
First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia

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