“every bishop, like every layman, is a witness to Christ crucified and risen, and that this witness has to be everywhere and always—among one’s own flock and among the people outside the bounds of the Church.
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“every bishop bears witness to Christ Crucified and Risen both among his own flock and among those outside the Church
“because every holy bishop is a witness to Christ crucified and risen.
“in the Church everyone – from the highest hierarchical ministry to the layperson – is united by the love of Christ, and that each person is a bearer of the grace of the Holy Spirit, which does not dwell in a person automatically but is given in response to a pious life.
“Shared have been the struggles to defend Orthodox doctrine, shared the cup of affliction in difficult times, and shared the witness to the Resurrection to the ends of the earth.
“We have been witnesses to your efforts for the unity of the Church, to your labors and struggles. And what we have seen with our own eyes and heard with our own ears, we testify to today with gratitude,
“a deacon never ceases to be a deacon
“To judge a cleric for following Christ and the Gospel is to become a Sanhedrin.
“If for others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord