“The bishops of every metropolitan province must know the bishop who presides in the metropolis, and he must undertake the care of the whole province, because all who have business come from all quarters to the metropolis...
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“It is by all means proper that a bishop should be appointed by all the bishops in the metropolitan province. <...> But the confirmation of what is done in each province should be left to the metropolitan.
“The bishops of every nation must acknowledge him who is first among them and account him as their head... But neither let him who is the first do anything without the consent of all.
“the Lord had chosen Metropolitan Onuphry for primatial ministry in these difficult times
“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.
“every bishop bears witness to Christ Crucified and Risen both among his own flock and among those outside the Church
“the order according to which every newly elected Orthodox primate, upon taking the helm of his Church, begins visiting the other Orthodox Churches, naturally starting with the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
“Metropolitan Tikhon assured His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of the prayers of the OCA clergy and faithful.
“no one but His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry could have steered the ship of the Church through such a difficult period