18.04.2007, [11:04] // Pope Benedict XVI //www.risu.org.ua
Kyiv – In his birthday greetings, Metropolitan Volodymyr (Sabodan), head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), wished Pope Benedict XVI on the occasion of his 80th birthday good health, high spirits, and God’s help in his high ministry to the church. pravoslavye.org.ua posted the news on 16 April 2007.
The text of the greeting reads: “The Pontificate of Your Holiness gives grounds to hope for more constructive relations and a fruitful dialogue between the Holy See and the Orthodox church, necessary for the spread of Christian values in the modern world, which needs the strengthening of traditional spiritual bases.”
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