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It is symbolic that Vladyka Laurus died on the first Sunday of Great Lent, the feast of the Triumph of Orthodoxy. His spiritual and historic role in the life of the Church served exactly that—the triumph of Orthodoxy. The Prior of Moscow’s Sretensky Monastery, Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov) talks with Russkaya Gazeta about Metropolitan Laurus’ role in the unification of the Churches.
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With a feeling of great spiritual joy I greet all of you on the world-saving feast of the Birth of Christ, foretold by the prophets, and bringing heavenly joy to all people, for there has been accomplished the “great mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh” (1 Timothy 3:16). I congratulate all of you with this great joy! May the Divine Infant Christ grant all of us this joy. The struggle of faith and its fruits in our days must be that joy which comes from hearing the heavenly doxology and the feast of the Incarnation of God.
His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II, Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, congratulated His Eminence Metropolitan Laurus, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, on his 80 th birthday today.
His Eminence Metropolitan Laurus of Eastern America and New York, Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, celebrates his 80 th birthday on January 1.
On December 23-25, 2007, a joint pastoral conference of the Berlin Diocese of the Moscow Patriarchate and the German Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia was held. This was the first such conference of the Russian Orthodox Church since the reestablishment of the unity within the Local Church.