DECR chairman expresses condolences on death of one of the oldest hierarchs of Church of Jerusalem
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Your Beatitude,
Please accept my sincere condolences over the demise of His Eminence Iakovos, Metropolitan of Scythopolis, one of the oldest hierarchs of the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem.
Having accepted the good yoke of Christ since his youth, His Eminence Iakovos dedicated his whole life to the service of God and His holy Church and made his own contribution to the assertion of Orthodoxy in the Holy Land.
May the Lord give rest to the soul of His late servant in the mansions of the righteous and rank him among His elected.
With respectful love in the Lord,
+ Hilarion
Metropolitan of Volokolamsk
Chairman
Department for External Church Relations
Moscow Patriarchate