“Your Beatitude’s episcopal ministry has become for the Romanian people and for the entire Orthodox world a benchmark of pastoral vision, right confession of faith, and the active building of a Church that gives birth to saints in an era marked by secularization, historical realignments, and healing,” Metropolitan Petru said.
The Metropolitan of Bessarabia also expressed gratitude for the support offered by Patriarch Daniel to the Romanian faithful living east of the Prut River.
“We offer our gratitude for the tireless efforts and the constant care shown toward the Metropolis of Bessarabia—initiatives that have opened paths of unity, healed some of the wounds of history, and restored the dignity of the Romanian people of Bessarabia after nearly a century of wandering and trials.”
“In the years when our national and spiritual memory and identity faced severe challenges from other peoples and unfriendly regimes, Your Beatitude provided our ecclesial unity with canonical foundation, uprightness, and dignity, witnessing at the pan-Orthodox level that Bessarabia is and cannot be anything other than Romanian and Orthodox,” Metropolitan Petru added.
Source: Basilica.ro
