The resolution of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill on the annual report of the diocese has been receivedtranslated

From the office of His Holiness the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', the Simbirsk diocesan administration received a resolution from His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus', based on the annual report of the Simbirsk diocese for 2025. It says, in particular:

“VII.24.2026 To the Reverend Metropolitan Longin:

Based on the results of studying the diocesan annual reports for 2025, I thank all the archpastors, clergy, monastics and laity who worthily carried out church service and other obediences last year.

The difficult times experienced by our earthly Fatherland are by no means a reason for despondency, for “this must be” (Mark 13:7), nor, even more so, in order to, citing temporary difficulties, weaken in our efforts to serve, to preach the word of God, to missionary feat. “Do not harden your hearts as in the time of murmuring, in the day of temptation,” Holy Scripture reminds us (Heb. 3:8). It was in the midst of the storm that the Savior said to His disciples: “Be of good cheer” (Matthew 14:27). And we, the disciples of Christ, and even more so the ministers of His sacraments, must firmly proclaim in the hearing of all: be of good cheer, for God is with us.

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