Your Beatitude, Dear Metropolitan Tikhon,

Please accept my heartfelt greetings on the occasion of your 60th birthday!

Joining me in offering prayers for you are the clergy and faithful of the Patriarchal Parishes in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, who love and deeply respect you as the Primate of the Orthodox Church closest to us in spirit and history. We share a common heritage and venerate the saints who shone forth through their holy labors in North America.

We continue to cherish and sincerely appreciate your goodwill and your brotherly fellowship with the parishes of the Moscow Patriarchate located within the canonical territory of the autocephalous Orthodox Church in America.

Your Beatitude, we wholeheartedly wish you many blessed years, good health, the almighty help of God, and the heavenly protection of Saint Patriarch Tikhon and all the heavenly patron saints of North America.

With respectful love in the Lord,

MATTHEW, Bishop of Sourozh,
Interim Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the United States and Canada, the clergy and faithful of the Moscow Patriarchate in North America