Letter of the Ecumenical Patriarch

To the most venerable erudite Archimandrite Cherubim Apostolou, Elder of the Brotherhood of the Theophileon at Saint Anne, beloved child of our Modesty in the Lord, grace and peace from God.

With joy we received from your Venerableness the piously submitted work of the most erudite Dr Charalambos Bousias entitled Elder Anthimos of Saint Anne’s.

Therefore, through this Patriarchal Letter, we proceed to thank you fervently for sending this work which depicts the venerable figure of the ever-memorable Spiritual Father Elder Anthimos. Congratulating you from our heart, we very eagerly bestow our paternal and Patriarchal blessing, invoking upon your Venerableness and those brethren practicing asceticism with you God's grace and His infinite mercy.

December 11, 2000

+ Bartholomew of Constantinople, your fervent intercessor before God

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