“no one present at the ordination in 1961 could have known where the young deacon’s path would lead.
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“the Lord had chosen Metropolitan Onuphry for primatial ministry in these difficult times
“no one but His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry could have steered the ship of the Church through such a difficult period