A great blessing and a special honour: our visit to His Eminence Metropolitan Augoustinos of Germany
Today we had the great blessing and special honour of visiting His Eminence Metropolitan Augoustinos of Germany, at the see of the Holy Metropolis of Germany in Bonn.
His Eminence welcomed us with much fatherly love and warmth, hosted us with special cordiality and addressed spiritual words to us, full of wisdom and fatherly love. With his rich spiritual experience and the great wisdom that distinguishes him, he counselled and strengthened us, and at the end he gave us his fatherly blessing. Our joy and emotion at this meeting are truly great.
Our visit had even greater significance for us, because His Eminence Metropolitan Augoustinos comes from our Crete, from Chania, and specifically from Voukolies. This common origin was another special and blessed bond at our meeting.
From our hearts we express our warmest thanks to His Eminence for his great love, his fatherly welcome, his warm hospitality and the blessing he gave us.
At the same time, we congratulate and thank him for the great, long and enduring work he has offered to the Orthodox Church in Germany, serving with devotion, love and a sacrificial spirit for 66 whole years.
We pray that God may grant him health, strength and long life, so that he may continue his blessed ministry for many more years and contribute to the further establishment and growth of Orthodoxy in Germany.
Your Eminence, Metropolitan Augoustinos of Germany, from the depths of our hearts we thank you and pray that God may bless you, strengthen you and grant you many and blessed years!
With feelings of filial love and respect,
† Nephon, Bishop of Majunga and North Madagascar
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